Show CASE THE professional experts who have been giving testimony on the subject of the electric current in new york for several days past are somewhat diverse in their opinions but all seem to agree with reference to one point that it is not the same in all cases that is a current of a given number dumber of volts or ohms which would kill one man might not another and even weaker one there being no means of determining beforehand what a persons resistance si is it seems that science has not before been called upon in a mandatory way to determine such a question and has thus made examination of a human beings susceptibility E to the deadly current a post mortem affair in every case it is a strange commentary upon lawmaking law making in the empire state where legislation costs nearly as much as it does in congress that a law of so 80 much consequence involving so much that is new and untried without giving it the consideration it is now having beforehand should be pushed through the first man sentenced under it is in a fair way to escape because of its being unconstitutional an and there being no other penalty prescribed this man under the old law would now be out of his suspense through the intervention of death but here he lives reading the daily reports of an investigation the object of which is to determine whether he shall live or die by the means proposed it is additional punishment this state of things and therefore wholly unwarrantable |