The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-12
ELECTRICAL EXECUTION
4 CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT
TO iNFLiCT.
what an Expert says-Human Nerves
taBHo, Transmit Feeling ss
Rapidly NJ an Electric
current gan Nh

NEW YORK. July 1.-THE efforts o.
Lawyer Bourke Cockranc TO establish
the fact in behalf OF W. NJ. Kemmeller
that the new method Of execution j,
cruel and inhuman, and. therefore, un
constitutional, was continued thi,
morning.
Ex-Congressman W. Bourke Cockrar
resumed his efforts Yesterday to make
electrical expert Harold Z. Brown say
something 90 confirm his theory that
death by electricity would be a cruel
and unusual punishment 10 inhict upon
William kemmler. the condemned
Buffalo murderer. In Mr.. Cochran :
eyes e'ectrCcution is dog s death. but
the expert persisted in the opinion that
it had been shown to be a quick and
painless method Of killing dogs. and
was certainly a good enough way to
end a man ; life.
Mr.. Brown began his testimony be.
fore Referee Becker by saying that some
of the animals he had used IN hts ex-
periments had been dissected immedi.
ately after they were killed. while the
bodies CT others were thrown into fur
naces and burned within a few
hours after death. While he was
experimenting at Columbia College
he burned dogs body in the fur.
mace. but owing TO the complaints made
about the foul smell that resulted the
other calcasses were left i'm the labora
tory until the following day when they
were removed M cart. The bodies Of
the hoises killed at Edison 5 place were
left as they were for twenty four hours
and were not dissected. The calves were
cut up by butchers. who did the rough
work for the doctors.
THEY HAD TIME TO REVIVE.
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that ,esra ,@. s;lss~t., ~; nv 9uDJ's ..','s
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II suppose you are familiar With in
stances whore men and animals have
been revived after they had been sup
posed to be dead ~
Il have heard Of such instances. but
they have not come under my obserya
ton.
Did YOU ever take any steps 70 give
the animals you cNperimented on a
chance 10 reyiyey'
" Some OF them had abundant chance.
as their bodies were kept twenty
four hours.
" Were all The dogs you used in your
experiments killed -
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that wonld nroh,ce daob Wbsn
used tine roniinuons c,,rrert ono loe
defed an nv efforts. II was Ai,.-r'
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deGed the lishtping . internosed Mr.
Cochran.
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him. said Mr.. Brown. we Ji5 moi
ry Oh kin him after that thinking that /
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THE CIRCUMSTANCES DIFFERED.
is it not true. asked the "a. Con
,re,sman. that the current that has
.iiied some men has passed through
,tbefs ..ilbout killing them y''