Capital Punishment by Electricity. - There is now be-ins; exhibited at I.eip/Jg ami apparatus for putting criminals t-> death by electricity. So Ions; as it is found necessary to retain capital punishment upon our statue books it may well be that the electric method is the most merciful and least repulsive process that could be devised for carrying tiic sentence into effect. In this apparatus behind the chair in which the condemned is to take his seat—and by means of which, as we need not explain in detail, his body is placed in circuit with a powerful coil—therestands a conventional figure of Justice with bandaged eyes, holding the balance in her left hand and the sword in her right. The criminal having taken his scat, the proper functuary is supposed to read over the record of his crimes and the sentence of the law. Tliis (’•■rt-m-iiiy c.,mplctrd. in- folds up the doe, me nt and plae-'s il in (lie M-alc pan, the arm of the balance descends, closes the cireuit,aud all is over,
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2050, 1 April 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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