Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-09-08


pluckng and burning OF the cnlflllS
! while the patient was yet alive; iourlh'
bthuaaiug, filth; quartgring, siNlh, OK
/ pusufc oil the head and quarters 90 sueh
places as the king directed, as was the
case with the Cofeau couspifatuf recent
| ", by degrees, behCadlng was substi'
iuled In England for this elongated pun'
/ ishmcnt in the case OF nubly born Of
lenders, aud hanging in the case OF men
oil low degree. Thus the simple
! method Of capital punishment super
/ seeded the affective style.
/ Onc %. the most horrible Of the allie
| tive methods Is that which has been
/ often p'aCiccd 10 the West Indies. and
| which is said to be occasionally used
/ there now, when the proyucaion Is
I great THIS Is performed vs. hanging
| the delinquent lt0m post 10y means ul
| q hook Inserted under his breast bone
/ iu this manner the sufferer Is prevented
/ from doing anything to assist himself
and all persons are prohibited, under
! severe penalties. from relieving hm Tn
/ tie climate Ui the Indies Ut, sullcfings
/ are intensified past expression by the
| ifighuul heat oi the sun. and By the
] mytiaU8 of insects which feed upon his
| llccmiud flesh. Men have been found
| OF such remarkable endurance that they
| have suffered this uuuttgfablc torment
/ Tor twelve days before death finally gave
relief
Garroiing Is q punishment principally
/ employed IN SPAN. A metal collar Is
/ put about the neck OF the cu.prit aud q
/ screw at the back Of the collar is turned
] boo such manner as TO crush the spinal
| cord, causing almost instant death.
| Then there was the death IN the cage
| method, which never obtained very CN'
! tgnsiycly; the condemned mau was
| huistcd in an iron cage on a gibbct, and
left 10 die Of thirst and hunger The
breaking on the wheel was a more cN.
! pcdiliuus, though perhaps no less brutal,
! method, The victim was placed ON bars
crossed like the letter x, and as this
] turned on pivot blows were admin.
. istcred with a club until the condemned
| was beaten to death, usually the chief
bones % the body being broken before
the "a ark of HE had llcd.
/, IS ass ucd that death by drowning
| IS one ol the easiest, though persons
/ who have passed through the earlier
! stages Of the process and then have
/ been resusciiattd do not advocate that
/ view, Al one time patuCllcS were
| scwcd up be- % sack aud thrown into the
| water Those who were classed IN Ger
/ many as mgancr criminals were pal, un'
/ der hurdles into boys OF ferns, while
/ maIclAglUrs were hung. The Angle
| SaNuus dfOWucd AL women who were
| convicted Of stealing, and King Richard,
/ the Lion Hearted. made that the legal
| punishment Tor any soldier who killed q
/ fellow crusader Criminals were
| drowned Ia England until the early part
/ OF The seventeenth century, and IN Scot
] land till 1855. In i6tt, 10 Scotland, a
/ man was officially drowned TOT stealing
a lamb. II was At one time the habit
I among Burgundiins 10 smother uniaIih.
| lul wives IN mud. II that were the pun.
ishmcnt now In civilized countries for
that ollcnsc on the part ol both women
and men, the mud marshes would be
| pretty well filled.
Hafi.kau IS the Japanese mode Of
punishment Practically Il Is the insIs.
| tcnCc oithc government that q man who
has proven himself unit 10 live shall
/ end his life. Il Is regarded as showing
a sense Of honor that the culput will
| slay himself, aud sometimes tie high
born japanese will commit hau kari Il
he has been insutcd In sUms manner
which makes II impossible 10 ayeuge
himself or clear his house Of the staiu
put upon H.
The gulloline-which, with hanging.
shooting and garOung constitute the
chief methods Of execution In the civil
lizcd nations Of today-datcs back but d
little over a century, aud was invented
by Dr. Guillotin, though Louis XVI
often gets the credit OF it, as he made h
the official weapon Of execution, and IN
turn lost his head on Il. Shooting Is re-
Eafdcd as the military punishment-ar
indication that war methods are some
times less harharOus then those adopted
against offenders in times OF peace.
la America, as late MS tgt2, four men
were burned ~ New York Tor murder
and burning 20 the stake was rcsoucd
to several times in New England DO
co onial days. Il was regarded as q to-.
ting death Tor hetcics-a hereto being
a person who does not agree with III,
religious views Of such organizations as
would forfeit life for opinions sake.
Burning at the stake was not so cruel O
death as some that might be named, ye
IL was sufficiently cruel TO hotrliy an or
dinaTly humane person. Here Is af
account from English history Of III,
burning OF Ellen EIsom, who was con
vcled OF killing her husband: "Sht
was clothed IN a cloth made like q
shift saturated with tar, and her limb,
were also smCared with the same intlam
mable substance, while a tarrcd bonnet
had been nlaccd ON her head. She wa.
brought out OF the prison barcioOted
and, being placed on "a hurdle, wa,
drawn ON a sledge 10 the place Of ex
ecuuou near the gallows. Upon auiva
some time was passed in prayer, after
which the eNrcutionur placed her ON d
tar b.> rel a height OF three feet against
the stake. A rope ran through q rims
In the stake, and was placed around hei
neck. she herself fixing II with he
hands" She was probably dead whei
the fire reached her, rs the cNeCutionc
had pulled her up several times whel
the irons werr being fixed, lie eNhibi
ted about the same cagcrness to wreIl
, vengeance that Is shown In modcu
/ lynching party
The persian and Roman habit O
throwing To wild bea' dccaycd becaus
ii was shocking TO the masses and wa
also eXppnsiye. Altera time Il ai0rde,
, ma pleasure TO the blrbI ians who wit
messed IL. any more than did the psu
reedinps Of the New England barbar
ANS VINO inflicted puuishmenls tina
| caused intense suffering hut were o
! euch a. nature that being an oilens
, opaiHst dcCcncy they cannot be wei
4 Wfi,ten Of. and are an indication o
sr,rrlative degradation In those who In
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