Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — SEEKS FIVE TO SHOOT MAN [ARTICLE]

SEEKS FIVE TO SHOOT MAN

Nevada Warden Has Small Success in * Finding Executioners—Prisoner j ~ Chose Own Death. ♦ _ " Reno, Nev., Aug. 13. —If there are live men willing to undertake the grew so me task of shooting a man to death, Warden George W. Cowing of the Nevada state prison is anxious to obtain their services. He has made efforts to find the five, but has met ,£ith no success, and t£e gate of the execution has been set for Aug. 29. The situation that confronts the warden is due to a new law which grants the privilege to a man condemned to death to choose the means whereby he shall be executed—whether by the rope or by shooting. The man to be executed is Andrigi Mirkovich of Tonapah, who selected shooting as the means.