Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1909 — DEATH FOR USERS OF OPIUM [ARTICLE]

DEATH FOR USERS OF OPIUM

Strangulation Will Be the Punishment Under New Edict In CMna. Washington, June 11.—Drastic punishment has been prescribed by the anti-opium commissioners in the new opium prohibition laws recently adopted In China. Prom the current year until the fifth year of Rsuan Tung the maximum penalty for those of high caste win be strangulation; in the following year this punishment will be extended to the gentry and a year later it will apply to the apmmon people. t