Bingham Bulletin | 1928-06-07 | Page 4 | Death in Electric Chair is Painless

DEATH IN ELECTRIC CHAIR IS PAINLESS The efficiency and rapidity with which criminals are put to death In the electric chair is explained by Frederick Tisdale In an article In Liberty. "The process of strapping In the criminal and attaching the electrodes is completed in about 4!) seconds." points out the writer. "So swiftly do the attendants work that the current enters the prisoner's body 70 seconds after he enters the death chamber. The current Is kept on about iwo minutes. A second nnd even a third shock may be administered as a precaution. pre-caution. While the current Is on a humming sound Is produced In the body. "Penologists declare that death by electrocution is instantaneous," continues con-tinues the author. "The heart Is stopped and the brain paralyzed before be-fore the nerves can register any feeling. feel-ing. The veins and arteries offer a perfect course for the current."