Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-03-20 | Page 1 | Nevada Lethal Gas Law Termed Cruel

uu NEVADA LETHAL GAS LAW TERMED CRUEL MADISON. Wis. March 19. Declaration Declar-ation that "I would rather be hanged than have to undergo tbe nervous a rain of knowing 1 was lo be executed execut-ed bv lethal gaJ." was made here today to-day by Director J H. Mathews of tho rjhivrjdty of Wisconsin, chemistry de-nartment de-nartment formerly major in th0 B'ts KJ flame division of tho United States arrnv In .ommentlng on the proposed KTevada humane law, -To be placed in a cell knowing sometime when J p i would b.- killed by gas would be p'ost terrible strain