Show P ij q r JIll The Modern Method of Execution IN IX ITS recommendation al oll that the tho electric dc chair be s substituted for the scaffold and md the rifle the Utah state slate board of corrections has lias made madean au an all excellent suggestion Electrocution has ims been found to be much more humane than either cither hanging or 01 shooting ting not however howe because of the fewer possibilities for suffering sl on the tho part of the condemned but rather for foi the reason that the control of the electric current has become so th thoroughly roughly exact that bungling is m re ensil easily 7 avoided In other states slates se sensitive instruments o of the law Jaw armed with rope or rifle have havo succumbed to overwrought nerves mid and a slaughter rather than a humanely conducted execution has Ilas been the result Society has agreed that the supreme crime against it that of summary removal of one of its members without ant must be bo punishable with death loath The intent of the penalty penally i id not revenge upon the culprit but rather as a deterrent to potential murderers r- r stand only the emotion of fear This supreme exercise of the authority of government must ho however er be with t the minimum of suffer suffer- ing hug for the offender and that irreducible minimum has been found to be best attained through the thc use of electricity It Itis is is the modern method and has huts b ben been en n found to be the tho most efficacious It should be adopted p |