Show electrocution in ohio I 1 COLUMBUS CoLUMB na 0 0 july L special 0 commencing om today the execution of the death penalty by hanging in ohio becomes a thing of the past and the buckeye state following the lead of new york will substitute tion excepting so far as relate to persons alread already y under sentence of death by the noose the change has haa been brought about by a bill introduced in the upper house by senator jones and championed in the assembly by representative reed it provides that all mur murderers derera convicted alter after jelv 1st ast an and d sentenced to the d eath death penalty shall be electrocuted and infliction of h e hausfe talie tak e place before sunrise on the day set by the sentence in court the death chamber must be in the penitentiary there is no change in the provisions of the present law relating to death sentences |