Show BY I 1 views of the W D howells on I 1 this weekly at this deuson when every influx enbe und al us of 0 tie who died might live forever in the willi of men I 1 hove been interested in tile dicu ision of the prop baitlon for the substitution of death by electricity for death by han gitig in the infliction f capital bullish pul lish me ut it aldeara al peara that a measure of this kind ia to be brought for ward in the new york during the winter and that there it reasonable hope of its adoption though I 1 observe that there is a gr I f fr tiers 1 19 the good old agolig the the press there is much to be isaid in behalf of this venerable growth of cen rooted in the remotest remo teEt past of our anglo saxon race and hard I 1 y u ax and take through every change of polity and religion yet there is a grave question whether it ia not an ment of torture as well as of death and whether it is not now our duty after nearly nineteen centuries the christ who bade us not kill at all to kill by the method known to science the weight of learned ony seems tu be in favor of electricity and there is ap prendy no reason why 1 his in ya cerious agent which now unites the whole civilized world by nerves f keen intelli getice which dates every enterprising city which already propels trains of cars and promise to heat then which has added to lifa in apparently iti 1 exhaustible haus tible variety should not also be employed to take it there is a sort of boeti awn C a it n ess in its use which we ought not to overlook in all age and a country ambitious of as well as hu manity I 1 understand that the ta b rk can be applied with a minimum of official intervention and without even arousing the vic lim or say patient from his sleep oil the morning fixed for his exe cution of the sentence sent euce one i burnal has drawn an pi c ture of the simple procesa ani I 1 have fan acied it e executions throughout the state taking place from the gov arnor is where his private sea detary 0 r the aimse 1 f might touch a little annunciation button and dist niss a murderer to the pret euce of his blaker with the in caes ca es of interest the executive might a company of bad persons to be present and ask some lady of the party to touch the button or as vohen torpedoes are explode e d or blasts fired in the comple ap if a fire at public work a little child might be allowed to discharge the exemplary office in the event however that the legislature should refuse to touch a ainge bough of the honored tree alich has an long sheltered arigalo saxon I 1 have a sugg tation to biake in this mate materoh execution li I 1 have long thought it cruel to the and his deputies to force them to hangland hang mand work and mon wretch me ke legal gilligg his trade and I 1 havi 3 to propose that the should he drawn from society it larga as jurors are and that no es 8 houd aviivii av iiii except the oath of the person drawn that he is coni opposed to capital put this system which is perfectly practicable would give from time to time men of sion and station the opportunity to attest their devotion to the great pr c ale abst if it is wrong to taka ai el a beconi arong of the kit 4 I 1 light dresses the balance find it |