Show SOLITARY confinement had lucchini Luc cheni the assassin of the empress of austria fared the fate of capital punishment the law would have been kind to him by comparison with the punishment he is enduring and must endure his hours have become days he lives but would rather be dead and gradually his spirit will be broken and he become a maniac such is the mental torture of solitary confinement imposed by the laws of switzerland where capital punishment is prohibited A writer who is familiar alth the prison system of that country says of lucchetta Luc chenta incarceration for the first six months ho will be in a dungeon eight feet under ground where never a sound is heard and only the faintest streak of light is admitted he dare not speak to his jailers and the punishment Is severe it he makes the slightest remark unless it Is in reply to a question when his spirit is broken by this treatment he is removed to a better situated cell but the same silence prevails to the end of his days the powers of speech and hearing are denied him As a rule the pals onera go raving mad |