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Show SLICING IS ABOLISHED. China Adopts Reforms in Methods of Punishment. NETV YORK, April 2.v In a response to a memorial of Wu Tung Fang. fJhlna'fl former representative at Washington, an imperial edict Just Issued abolishes the punishment of slicing to denlth. and substitutes sub-stitutes decapitation, cables the Peking correspondent of the Herald The exposure of the heads and bodies of people after execution also will be abolished. Immediate strangulation is substituted for decapitation. A reprieve, until after the autumn assizes as-sizes Is substituted for immediate strangulation, and three reprieves annul the death penalty. Branding is also abolish- d WU Ting Fang has been ordered to memorialize the throne for other beneficial benefi-cial changes. |