| Show EXECUTION BY electricity THE usual but bat barbarous method of 01 administering capital punishment punish meat by I 1 hanging human beings by the neo like doss dogs will soon be among the customs of the past in the state of new york as will beseda by the following f from rom a prominent exchange the approval 1 of governor hill brings into force a new law in new york which abolishes hanging banging as a punishment tor murders committed after january 1st ast 1889 and makes a test of et electricity as a means of execution after that date under the bill a prisoner sentenced to death shall be kept in solitary confinement contin ement to be visited only by officers or relatives a physician and clergyman bis hio and counsel until the day of execution the sentence is to desi designate gaste only the tee week of execution the tay cay v and hour boar being left to the discretion of the principal officer of the prison the execution is to take place in private and Is to be by means of a current of electricity passed through the body ot of the con embed man ihan various plans have bay e been proposed to insure a painless pain leos death without disfigurement of et the body the essentials being perfect contact with the electrodes the arras arms of a chair tor for example and a current of great electromotive electro motive force such as is used in are arc lighting execution by electric sho shock r has often been proposed but new york Is the first state to provide for it by enactment the experiment peri perl ment will be closely watched by the country at large it is in the interest of humanity and genuine civilization that such horrible scenes scene sas as those connected tor for instance with the ike execution of the chicago anarchists ts should be abolished the vie tims on that occasion having been literally choked to death it is more than probable that the example of new york will be folio followed oved by other states stales |
