Show PRATH BY electricity ELECTRIC IrY tux state of new york is about to enter cuter upon a novel experiment in inteli relt kioa to the disposition of its capital criminals like every other state abid every organ organized zed territory except utah the present mode ol 01 inflicting the death penalty is by hanging but the last legislature ot of the empire state concluded to take a step in advance and leavi leave this relic of barbarism for a more humane and scientific plan various devices were suggested but electricity was at last hist agreed upon and d after this month the victims victim of th the ne law whose lives are to br be taken will not be subjected to strangulation 11 nor to publicity the law was not as comprehensive or exact as it should have been as the plans and means by which the electric fluid was to be applied were left to a commission composed ot of le legal gal and medi medical calmen men anda an plan was waa agreed upon a few days ago the adoption of the plan by them makes it the law and all convie convicted fed murderers whose crimes are committed on or alter january I 1 next will be sentenced to expiate their crimes by such means the doomed man will be fastened firmly to actable covered with a non con ducting substance probably the back of his bis head encased in a leather sheath the positive electrode elect iode will be applied to the back of the neck and the negative to the top of the head bead these being connected with a dynamo generator ot of at least volts power and the circuit will remain open ainsil until the fatal moment arrives arncey when it can be closed by means of a button or other device and when this is done all is over death is instantaneous and painless the electric current passes passe s through the brain and nerve tissues at once completely paralyzing them and destroying consciousness and life in ranch much less time than the twinkling of an eye there will be great interest in the first arst execution under the new law especially on the part ot of the subject of it |