| Show NEW METHOD OF capitali CAPITAL punishment SOME eastern papers are advocat advocating i a electricity as a humane method of capital punishment hanging is played out was the boast of ruffians in some eastern cities not long ago age but this was not because some better mode of inflicting the death penalty had been adopted but because the execution of the laws was so miserably enforced A bill has been introduced in the new york e state eState legislature for the appointment paint ment of a commission to investigate and aad report on the best beat method of putting condemned persons to death electricity seems to be the favorite mode in theory how it would answer in practice hat has not yet been demonstrated the supposed superiority of this over the hunting hanging process is ta ia the absence of the unsightly paraphernalia pher nalia of tile the scaffold aud and tile the rope the certainty of its action aud and the absence of physical suffering it is possible that the first recommendation may have something in it but it is not sure that no mistake would be made that a culprit might not be half or three quarters killed by tile the shock and that his sufferings might not be greater and more prolonged than by the old method it 1 t is alleged by electricians of experience that it would be both au an uncertain and a cruel means of leathand deat hand that it is very doubtful if an instrument could be constructed under ordinary circumstances that would give a current strong enough to kill a man without fail there ought to be a better mode adopted than the barbarous plan now in vogue ue of choking a criminal to dea death t line i ice SL a dog the right way would be to follow the flatoff deity whoso choso sh eddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed this is not complied with by hanging neither would it be b e by an electric shock the murderers blood should be poured out as the only guly atonement he can make for his crime Shoot shooting ipg or decapitation would accomplish this and be preferable to either the common or proposed metr iod as certain swift t and instantaneous it need not be so public as to shock the senses sense of the multitude and could be divested of the horrors that attend a common executive by hanging that is blood atonement about which so many people talk in their ignorance and is t the e penalty pronounced upon thi the manslayer man slayer by the great creator whose word should be the supreme law |
