Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — A Unique Use for Murderers. [ARTICLE]

A Unique Use for Murderers.

A member of the Ohio Legislature, at the instance of several prominent BelGians, has introduced into that y a bill embracing a unique idea. It abolishes hanging as a means of capital punishment, and provides for the ‘taking off” of murderers by the use of anaesthetics administered under the supervision of a board of physicians and scientists. The condemned xnan having been wafted into a painless sleep, the scientists are permitted to take off tho top of his skull and watch the action of his brain, or lay bare his heart and other vitals and study life for the benefit of science and humanity in general. t Twelve miles from a lemon.—Sydney Smith, in a letter to a friend concerning the living in Yorkshire to which Smith was appointed. Willful ignorance is an incurable ailment.