The sun., 1890-09-25
TO SAVE SKIBUYA JUGIRO.
HIS CASE TO COME BEFORE THE So
PRFME COURT IN WlSBINGTON.

Lawyer sherman. His Counsel, Contends
that the DynRme-eleetrie Macbints Used
ny the Btats Cannot Cause peath wIths
eut Fieadtsh ana IAe1PrsasIbIs Torture
ALBANY, Sept. 24-Attorney General Tabor.
on behalf q Warden Brush Of Sing Sing prison.
has been served with notice to show cause be-
fore the United States Sup eme Court at WASH
ington on Oct. IA why the decision OF Judge
Laoombe Of the United States Circuit Court,
denying the petition OF skibuya JuGiro. who IL
in Sing Sing prison. awaiting execution by cleo
trtcity for q writ OF habcas corpus, should not
be corrected. TIE retiiion OF Jugiro asking
for writ OF habene corpus by Roger NJ. Sher-
man Of New York city, his attorney who was
untirinR IN his unsuccessful similar efforts to
save REMINDERS life, says In eubstanes:
Tho State OF New York has in It's possession
for carrying ont the electrical execution law rs
regat ds your petitioner. only certain dynamo.
electric machines by which can be generated
no continuous current OF electricity but only
an IL flnite number Of distinct and entir .ly dis
continued currents. that the use OF such ma
chimes cannot cause to pass through the
human body n current suf ncicntto cause death
by its intensity, but that the use thereof will
cause an infinite number Of discontin led cur
rents to pass through lis boIy. with tho result
that he will be carboni2eG from the surface OF
his body until he shall yield up his life as the
result OF fisndlsh and ineErrc.sibls torture.
machines can generate a norna force. OK
pressed in volts, Of only l,o5o volts; that such
force ia adequate 70 immedintely overt2me the
resistance OF q body. expressed IN ohms, W
only 100 ohms. an ony upon human o9dy
Instant death that whiiC the applcation OF
the ioe, rGm RI, tHd H,n machines 10 petiS9nsEs
ally while he would meanwhile be lowly tor
tuied and consumsd b. heat end put ln
esas ono'k That Il REctSer n!ff he hsS would %
on his ablit, t. en,iGie p9in; hut that Il he
shoud he nnconsciou- It would he because ne
would be unahl- 10 endure tho tor ure. no, bo-
cause the centres OF nerve sensn ion would be
destrorcd or because OF instantane us death.
TAe machines and processes held out and the
other different .ftec, You, Getiti"ner's cleo
Your petitioner further alleges that no
other means Of arillcielly generating electric.
W n9w % Cs SSn am
purchase a license to use anytothor dynamo
electric machines. and cannot mnputactnro
patent: that no adequate machines are made
or can be made for the generation of an ade-
3 ribrd. 1t is there ore not possible TO apply
current of e. lectricity 10 the vital nnrts of ne
tbs body nG'r pn
9, statute sttfs m 1t n tas stasSS
officers. threaten ard intend to apply
currents in conflict with such statute. 80 as 10
torture your petit onsr, or else perpetualiy to
thority OF law, ~ Lhe sentence was set down
to be executed on Feb, 5 last. which sentence,
conrn0mont until that date. Your petitioner
is protected b. the provisions Of tas treaties
State. from the wrongs and injuries aforesaid,
and therefore charges that the State OF New
York. ite officers and agents. keep him in GUS
Uni,ed States Constitution. OF the Ioui teenth
Amendment thereof and without due process
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