Show THE uncertainty of death by electrocution tro seems to have been des belled four victims were this morning ushered into eternity by the fluid electricity death in any form ia hard to meet but much more eo when it is feared there is a good deal of torture accompanying it though the force of electricity has lon been understood the bungling mesa made of the execution of a year ago caused the present electrocution to be more or less shrouded in doubt as to its practicability it would seem however by all reports that it worked admirably and henceforth death by electricity will be undoubtedly the mode of capital punishment in new york state electrocution has been fought against most vigorously by capital and men of brains capitalists bad the idea that the employing of electricity for capital punishment would have a tendency to retard its use fur domestic purposes and thus prove an injury to the sale of many aiato iato patents money was put up in behalf of KEMMLER and his case was carried to the highest tribunals only to be pronounced all right so far as law was concerned the late executions seem to denote that as a practical and quick mode of dispatching human life electricity las no equal As this is an electrical age and banging is simply a barbarous practice it is quite likely electrocution tro cution will be extensively adopted throughout the united states the argument has been used that if capital punishment is made light by tho quick and easy mode of taking human life which electrocution inaugurated inaugurates ates death will to a great extent lose its terrors in the estimation of the public and capital crimes become more frequent for instance they say that many have not BO much a fear of dying as they have of the mode of dying under the old regime the gallows inspire a terror which the apparent painless electrocution can not give there is a good deal of truth in this statement and yet the fact remains that all love life few ore so depraved but what their existence has some charm to them and so jongas this love of life exists just so long will capital prove a check to crime |