Show electrocution CONDEMNED when the now new york legislature enacted the law providing that capital punishment should be inflicted by means of electricity it was waa thought to be a stop step in the direction of a higher civilization when the first victim was subjected to the grew Bome some performance for mance it received something of a bac bachiet kiet death was not instantaneous and the current had to be reapplied applied re to comply with the terms of the sentence it was a most sickening spectacle and it now turns out or seems to do so that not even the second current produced death but a kind of from which the subject may be revived by a resort to artificial respiration or scientific appliances A special to the tribune gives the views of an eminent french on this subject he claims that electrocution tro cution does cloes not kill the one subjected to it being merely mangled alive through the subsequent examination of the physicians and that this Is in reality what produces death this makes it appear that the law Is ie not carried out at all the victim of it being killed by the autopsy the authority spoken of M DAr souval is highly endorsed and if his conclusions shall be shown to be correct the barbarous business spoken boken of should be abandoned certainly the state of now new york can do no less lesa than order a thorough investigation and do it at once |