SURER THAN THE ROPE.; DEMONSTRATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHISHMENT BY ELECTRICITY.
On January 1, 1889, the law requiring electrical executions goes into effect, but until yesterday the amount and character of current required to make death certain and instantaneous had not been determined. The experiments upon dogs made last Summer by Harold P. Brown, the electrical engineer, were criticized because the weight of the animals killed was ...
December 06, 1888
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