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Show Folly r Medullar Philadelphia Press. All this is and has been utterly demoralizing. de-moralizing. There is nothing in it to encourage a change to this mode of execution ex-ecution in other states. Death yesterday yester-day in all cases was instantaneous, painless,. and without a struggle. The terrible lessons of Auburn were heeded to good purpose, hut nothing happened hap-pened yesterday to lead any ono to conclude that murder was preveuted. or the humane punishment of crime promoted, by the line of electricity a9 a d.ath agent. An interesting esperi- has been tried, but its moral results are I nil, and the to'iy of theoretical med-I med-I (lling with established law aud custom ' has had a new illustration. |