Show 00 LETHAL GAS IN NEVADA Having Haring bad had an AIl eu experience with l lethal thol gas as a It means of executing I toI c condemned Nevada Is to I turn from the new method to the theold theold old one of ot shooting There Is a It bill before the Nevada legislature substituting shooting for the measure D S Dickerson state warden Harden and who was super superintendent ot of o prisons under Press PresIdent I dent Wilson openly admits that execution by lethal gas Is atrocious and would favor aver shooting Mooting as more humane Nevada after the war when a hen so much was being said about poison polson gas tiled tho the experiment of o putting prisoners to death by b lethal gas Two were executed at Carson The wardens warden's opinion should l be bethe bethe b the guide for tor the legislators ot of Ne No Nevada Nevada vada as he be had every eHry opportunity to study the gas method It Is quIte certain no other states will follow tollow the tM example ot of Nevada after this testimony by the warden There are those who were Ope op opposed posed to all forms of o capital pun pun- puni punishment i claiming It serves no higher purpose than life Imprison Imprison- Imprisonment Imprisonment bent ment ment though It tends to brutalize I those who are given given the po poser poTier er toI toj toI to I j I I take tahe human buman life lite But with anum a num number ber of or hardened criminals nothing short of oC death deters themI them The present wave of ot crime over I the country Is causing a larger I number of people to insist on exo exe for lor those who are are mur bur murderers and one ono argument Is ix that the earth should not be encumber encumber- encumbered encumbered ed ed with those who have murderous instincts nn |