 The punishment of death must, in every case, be inflicted by causing to pass through the body of the convict a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death, and the application of such current must be continued until such convict is dead.  The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal - Page 1071888Full view - About this book
 | 1890 - 542 pages
...amended so as to read as follows: ' The punishment of death must in every case be inflicted by cansing to pass through the body of the convict a current...sufficient intensity to cause death, and the application of such current must be continued until such convict be dead.' And it is this attempted change in the... | |
 | 1889 - 546 pages
...containing among others, a provision that the punishment must in every case be inflicted by csusing to pass through the body of the convict a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to csuse death, to be continued until death ensues. This law also abolishes public executions, and, as... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Commissioners of Prisons - 1899 - 288 pages
...sentence, which duty shall be performed by the warden of the State Prison. The punishment of death shall be inflicted by causing to pass through the body of...electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death. The act provides for the number of persons who may be present at each execution, in addition to such... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1924 - 1048 pages
...of Columbia shall bo by the process commonly known as electrocution. The punishment of death shall be Inflicted by causing to pass through the body of...intensity to cause death, ! and the application of such current shall be continued until such convict is dead. Sic. 2. That the Commissioners of the District... | |
 | 1908 - 1156 pages
...punishments shall not be inflicted." The act (PL 1900, p. 112) prescribes that the punishment of death must be inflicted "by causing to pass through the body...electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death as speedily as possible, and the application of such current must be continued until such convict is... | |
 | 1888 - 684 pages
...coil, and they finally recommend the enactment of a statute reciting that " the punishment of death must, in every case, be inflicted by causing to pass...sufficient intensity to cause death, and the application of such current must be continued until the convict is dead." This solemn discussion of thirty-four different... | |
 | 1890 - 1110 pages
...section of the Code of Criminal Procedure was amended so as to read as follows: "The punishment of death must, in every , case, be inflicted by causing to pass through the body of the convicta current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death; and the application of such... | |
 | 1888 - 596 pages
...suggested. The report recommends that in every case death shall be inflicted by parsing through the body a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death, and the passing of the current must be continued until the convict <s dead. The warden of the prison must be... | |
 | 1889 - 606 pages
...of Criminal Procedure is hereby amended so as to road, as follows : § 505. The punishment of death must, in every case, be inflicted by causing to pass...sufficient intensity to cause death, and the application of such current must be continued until such convict is dead. § 6. Section five hundred and six of said... | |
 | 1889 - 466 pages
...Hill, and of which the following arc the most important provisions: "§ 505. The punishment of death must, in every case, be inflicted by causing to pass...sufficient intensity to cause death, and the application of such current must be continued until such convict is dead. "§ 507. It is the duty of the agent and... | |
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