Show i SMOOTHING THE MURDERER MURDERERS 5 WAY r I 1 1 the recent executions at sing sing by electricity and the interest aroused I 1 1 in the system by the fact that a new I 1 i york newspaper editor has been arrested I 1 and will be prosecuted for publishing in violation of the law all ob finable details regarding the event have called into the columns of tho the I 1 11 1 public press a host of alk I 1 who haro have suggestions to effir as a to other and still lees less revolting revolt ios methods 0 0 A I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 of 0 executing the death po penally nalty the one thought ot of these humanitarians is that tha the exit of the murderer mast must ba be made as pain painless lees and as comfortable aa an Poe possible sible it matters not how atrocious and bracal be may have been when slaying his victim or with what diabolical cruelty he may have cent sent into the beyond the toul soul ot of innocent infant lovely woman or drizzled elre sire the inconsistency ot of all this maun dering sympathy for the wretch con damned is not unlikely to create in to rugged minds a desire that the identical form of 0 death the murderer visited upon bia his victim ba in tarn turn meted oat out to him certain it ia is that the dread thes of such a penalty swiftly and richly imposed would prove much more of a deterrent than seems at present to exist and surely the prevention of the crime by any means whatever would be preferable to the punish anent for it after its commission no matter how merciful and expedition expeditious that punishment may be As a further sample of the ingenuity and scientific knowledge which men are now bringing to bear upon the question of executions we quote the suggestion of E L ayeroff ayer of portland ore made through the new now york sun sui what I 1 propose li Is to inject into the jugular vein of the condemned person a lew few dr drogi 0 ps ol 01 prussia leid icador or to be scientifically act of anhydrous acid the deadliest poison known to chemistry I 1 would have the prisoner lie ile on acot cot and nd be placed under unde the influence ot of an an when he be I 1 li a unco a hypodermic act syringe will for orce ce the acid into the vein and death will be almost instantaneous the advantages advant agea of the method are its inex pensiveness its requiring no elaborate preparation ol 01 horrifying machinery and nd its M merciful certainty we doubt not that if a vote could be taken of all the condemned murderers and all those who expect to become murderers and to be condemned mr ayers plan would have unanimous nn and enthusiastic preference over any other method yet proposed whether this fact or would not render the trusele acid idea acceptable to the law abiding community those we mean who may become the of a fiends fear hatred or revenge we do not care to answer though we have our opinion just the game same |