Show ISS S AUTHORITIES lUTI PUZZLED AS HOW TO EXECUTE LEGALLY International New r-ew Service and London D Dally Daily ly Express Geneva Switzerland Fob ob 13 The Thc Th cantonal authorities of ot are aro confronted with the extraordinary p problem of or how to kill hill a criminal le legall le- le gall gally A Swiss named Famel Pamel aged cd 8 28 In fn AU August 1919 murdered a young Swi Swiss s girl sirl at fit Schaffhausen under specially brutal circumstances At the trial the jud judge c finding no extenuating circumstances sentenced him to death According to Swiss law I however there are only two means ol ot of executing a a. a criminal tho the guillotine or decapitation with a a. sabre bre Professional Professional executioners with a sabro bro disappeared disappeared dis dis- appeared Ion long Ions a ago o whilo Switzerland po possesses only one rust rusty guillotine g inthe In tho the museum at Lucerne which was vas lost last t employed after many preparations preparations lions to decapitate a a. murderer ten years ago when the question arose ol or importing a new working working- guillotine from Prance France Tho dC death lh penally was 15 abolished many yeas years ago abo in all tho the two twenty-two Swiss cantons except four Sent Sentence of ot Imprisonment for tor life Ute Is usually pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- in extreme extremo cases case but this case Is 15 complicated by tho fact that laurel Hamel laurelis is sick of or lifo Ufo and wd demands tho the death penalty and not imprisonment for or life ire According According- to tho the verdict of or tho the jury ho is legally leg entitled to mal mako malo o this de demand de- de mand mand- He refuses to appeal and tho the authorities must there therefore Core put him to death but the question is how It would take le several weeks cel s to make mako the I ancient guillotine at Lucerne Lucerno work satisfactorily sat sat- I |