| Show capital punishment in utah the matter of changing clin nging the methods of inflicting inducting indic ting death penalty on those convicted of capital unmet in this thia state Is s fairly before the legislature attres at pros out ont one convicted of a capital cap ital so Is IB allowed tho the choice of whether lie ho shall bo or shot the usual prefer once iti in utah is ia shooting but it if a held by ninny that death by shooting is ia an honorable death and should not ba allowed to a convicted felon accordingly na as the gallows has come largely into there la is it u pronounced movement in favor ot of electrocution which I 1 in s tho the method in the iho moro more advanced sidles wo we see eoe no objection to changing i the ho method so BO ii as to have tho judgment of capital punish punishment mont carried out by anouna of electrocution tho the othor other proposition informally dio die cm cussed sed of turning over tho abo punishment of tho the criminal to find allowing to commit it ho will is hardly worth any discussion for or the community tit ot largo large by reason of its community power takes cognizance of erl crine ine and j jurisdiction uris diction over tho the criminal it does docs not surrender that jurisdiction to tho the criminal himself or to ony any other I 1 power it if it did make such surrender the criminal would logically bo be free frae to do 10 ia as he liked for thu laws cannot nt at tho the timo release him to to his hia own devises and still hoep heep control of him the matter of ent en Arcing tho the criminal law is ia a public function not to bo be surrendered tit any phase of its application the mass Mf tas republican has the following brief editorial on this of tho the situation here atall is ia much exercised over how it shall ehalt dispose of its convicts con viota condemned to capital punishment the law now permits the vic victim titi it a choice between hanging and shooting and a prominent salt lake eake city attorney seriously tug geEts tho the ancient custom that berv survives ivea in china of per buich R T the lie truth is that taking human lifo life by any method is ia becoming less aad at d less palatable to civilized man the t suggestion is a bad one but it is bad busny business ss anyway 11 it is true that there 19 io ft a good deal of revolt against tho the execution of a capital sentence Bon tonce but so BO there has been such revolt for fifty years and moro more in many parts of the states but tho cho common sense of tho the people cople p does not see clearly the justice of allowing a man to provide hint with free board sanitary san ilary and comfortable lodging and clothing fur for the alio rest of his lifo life merely becatti because o ho fie comin commit its tin an act of extraordinary virulence against the law thera them is much awry in our criminal practice but until wo we get a thorough revision revision nud and amendment of our criminal statue it is hardly to bo ba expected that tho the state stat will oither either surrena ar its jurisdiction uris diction over fi a criminal or fail to extend special epochal and extraordinary rewards to him fr t r the commission of crime salt lake laho tribune bune |
