Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1918 — Capital Punishment. [ARTICLE]

Capital Punishment.

Five states have abolished capital punishment and have life imprisonment as the penalty for murder, vis: Kansss, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota and Rhode Island. The following states have adopted electrocution as the mode of punishment, viz : Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey. New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. In the states not named above hanging st 11.' prevails. i