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Show Under a territorial law in force in Utah, John Wiggins, convicted of murder in Salt Lake city and sentenced sen-tenced to death, lias been allowed to make choice of the manner in which ho should bo put to death, and yesterday, yester-day, in open court, elected to be shot rather than to be hanged or decapitated. decapi-tated. If, however, it be the design of the law to impose the most horrible penally for murder, to have a sack drawn over one's face, and to be dangled dan-gled at a rope's end until strangled, is probably the most horrid punishment punish-ment that could bo devised. If the object be simplo to deatrwy criminals too dangerous to bo Iwl live, it might bo accomplished absolutely without pain or repulsive Rpcctaclc by tho administration ad-ministration of chloroform or ether. Chicago Tribune. |