Deseret Evening News | 1892-02-16 | Page 4 | The Press and Public Executions

tiii: rjtis am i'i! in, ic v,x- UCTIONS. Nrw Vokk and Mlnnesoti, until rriYutly were the only two titales In the Union which eicluJed frras representatives rep-resentatives from public eiecutloii'. This ciHidltton will prevail no hngt-r In the Koiplre Htate. The cipltal punishment law has been ao amende-t that In future rejiortera will te preeent at electrocution. The bill hni ro celved the aent of the thveruor. Mlnneota now remalnaalonoln this rather j-ecullar situation with n-jard to publlo executtonv. Hrr capital pun Uhment law la modelled aamewlint after that uf New York, before the recent change. Now that the reform lu the New Vork law has been efleclt!, many of the newspapers of MluueioU are agitating an amendment of th law providing rut alone for pre rep rmcntatlvie at publlo executions but for the Introduction of tho repulslvu electrocution metho Is of littllctlug catltat punishment as pracllcel In New York Hiate.