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Show IRRUTALITY IS MANIFESTED. An eastern writer ha s severe cm I ilsm oi UUh'l law on capitnl punish ; inent. Expiespln a feelinn of abhor ! ape over the shooting of prisoners , ' I ! nilonineil to death, the writer Bays i!fjj The Utah legislature has r- vli pealed Itl Infamous 'shoRifnm 1 i-xeculion" law, and will hereafter 'i'J electrocute ronclr-mnod murderers, j The Run wns no improvement over I the (eUlOWB, I tali found. Hence ! I the electric chair, ij.f L'tah. you remember, inaugural M ed the "shotfrun execution" some jffi ears ago. Murderers were Rivon mi the "privilege" of choosing be '!!Lb twecn tin rope and the buiiei. fflk Most circled to be launched in'o ycl eternity by aid of the gun. jra So far, so good. The law provided that five cltl-f'Vm cltl-f'Vm rens should be chosen to do th HH hooting. ,V 1 At the last "shnienn exeriii ion" I 111 T.r men applied for the job. jii I (n) five were chosen, and were jjfcl paid ?7n each for sending a bill jjjl lei into a human heart That ?hooting set the state to thinking Some eitir.pn a rrnfl P9 that such a large lii of ready fill shooters indicated growing de tm sire to take human lite, lcgallv. and. for a price, of course, but uf killing, jusi the same. Kf There were more applicants for H the shooiing Job s the last e.e- H cutlon than at others; the list of H ready killers seeiiK-d growing H Utah decided to call a halt be- lore the state via erowderl with H men overly anxious to take human life at $7i per shot |