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Show iiLiniioii)nii on tiii: tlUIIIUIIM1. Till! New York Sun was to sum that all the sensible people of the ritate were with It lu Its little war on the electrocution law that It has gone lo the expeusai of coniplllu; tho o luloni of lendlug men of all pirtlis ou the sulject, Among the dosen or mora throughout the Htala whom It Ins Interviewed, two only are In favor of re islliiir, the law, Ono was ( hauucey M, Dcew, whose ro.11011 for so wishing was that he did not bsllove In klllng murderers Inany ftthlon. The other guntleimu ofthoopiixltlon wjiIIiu Hon W. II, rtjbertaou. Ills reasou was thst he wssono oftbuftvo members of the KtatoHenate whoopposeil tho law at Us passage, and ho had not taktn Ihu trouble to change his mlud It looks viry much as though tho Sun ha 1 reached as comfortable a poiut as It will likely ever ro!i to drop the subjett. lu any event, by lu aft-jrls to show a puUlo aversion to thoilectrlo methoiof executing crlmlnils, It has proveu the oontrsry so cirectiully as toiuikevlectrooiitlou a pretty surelu-tltuthin surelu-tltuthin fir Siiue lime to oome. A nolewiirlliy point In the Inter-views Inter-views Is the favor which wu express iMInssrersl lustuusiforlue guillji Ills'. 'I his Is a new esntloieat ou this continent, but it will not be s uprising If the next innovation that Is mule In Ihu methods of exwutluu sin uld liu to Franco for a mo lei U ,u i,a ,,ij of tho giilllolllie lUal II m ver lllrt dlspOSOIDfllS V Mill, Win 4 , ,u bo uld of tho gallows, au 111 ii, aless drslh Is s,silble, this (nstruuient will liifll tit, since, at the Imtsnt of 'It touch, It cuts In twilath life cord It self Moreover, lo the advantages lismnl, Italds a perfect fulfllmiut of that law to Christian belief which sayr "Whoso sheds man's blood by man shall Ills bloml be shed." This l(a,ilntof scripture which Is qulto lostslglitofby the nlvocatca of hanging hang-ing au 1 rlrclrucutlon. |
