Show NO DRINKS ON THE SCAFFOLD A custom that would be betzler honored in the breach than the abs observance lyonce h has grown up around the method of A murderer taking us off by the officers of the law which he has hae violated we rider refer to the practice of allowing the condemned wretch during his last fast hours of mortality inor Wity all the liquor that he chooses to ask for it will be remembered rel that in the recent execution in this territory one of the first re quests of the doomed man when I 1 informed that chat all hope or df commutation of sentence must be abandoned was for plenty for good whis wilsay kyJ the precedent in ID uch such eases cases was doubtless followed during the remainder of stay in the penitentiary the request was probably granted indeed one report of his execution ote cution represented him as a in an almost maudlin state of drunkenness this may have halve been an exaggeration but all the reports re agree that even after arriving at the fatal spot and while stab upon the very brink of the ahe miser atole mans de wand mand tor for lequar was toast least twice mooed ed eatch to I 1 NOW we submit that it is a false idea him of ibber duty or pity that a with suon such a re quest and we do this the more readily because it is of record that the present U US 8 marshal for utah showed ex reluctance to in yielding in the case under discussion there is no reason why a creature that las has been found guilty of murder should have his bis last hours made maae pleasant or why be should bs ba either stimulated to firmness or rend rendered tred wholly or in part unconscious for the fetal fatal moment in the ease case in point the last words of the crimin I 1 were foul brutal and dis die gusting in the extreme whether the liquor he bad swallowed was responsible for any part of them or at best served only to bring outtie out the low instincts of that wretched heart matters not at all had he been sent to his blo account ste count without any sign eign or suspicion of intoxication there could av been aa W 1 pe cyp 1 pethia Pe thip ate NO pwe k I 19 0 W balau agA wpc kaa p better LA triau than to defalle his wha the be wj bibs fibs but the law which d does oes not allow the administering of opiates or sir ie to deaden the the condemned would seem also alao by bj inference to forbid the giving to him stimulants or in toxic toxicants ants at any rate we I 1 believe this interpretation will b be e accepted with gendral favor and we are sure cure no officer of the law will be guiry of cruelty or inhumanity if to such demands demanda as nave have been referred to t he be resolutely turns turna a deaf and unwilling eari ean |