Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — Will Use Electricity. [ARTICLE]

Will Use Electricity.

Boston, April 14. —Gov. Wolcott has signed the bill providing for electrocution of persons condemned to death, in place of hanging, all sentences to be carried out in the state prison.