The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23
CAPITAL PENALTY
Some Curious Methods of Exc
cutting Criminals.
MOROCCO USES THE LASH.

Flcgsina to Death Is Still II vogu,
Among the Moors--Strangulation /;
Employed In Austria, and epair
clinss 20 the Garrcte
There are many curious methods OF
inhicting capital punishment inf the
various countries Of the old world
some Of them tinged with the cruelty
OF the dark ages.
Morocco - perhaps the most rnediac,
val country III existence. Ffogging to
death is still In vogue. 1t IS lot 50
very long ago that Mulai Haad had
the Shereef Kittain executed in this
horrible fashion.
The aneer Of Afghanistan has pc
ctlliar methods Of making tho punish.
ment fit the crime. A baker, for sell.
ing short weight. was roasted In his
own oven, and man who had started
scare that the Russians were ad.
vancing on Kabul was plnccd on a
stool fastened on top Of a tall pole
and kept there on sentry gotill he died
of sleeplessness and exhaustion.
Political crimes are not uncommon
In Persia and the revolutionists. when
caught. are dealt with summarily.
Four conspirators who were recently
caught In the act of throwing d bomb
In the crowded bazar at Tehcran were
hanged and quartered In the same
fashion that prevailed In England UP
to the seventeenth century. The re-
mains Of the wretched men werp hung
at the city gates us a horrible warning.
An Austrian officer convicted of poi
soning his superior officers In tile at
tempt to win promotion was sentenced
to be strangled.
Austria is the only country whicn
employs this particular method Of ex.
ecution. but Spain's garrote is very
similar. The original method OF gar
roting was. In fact. nothing but stran-.
glinS The criminal was seated ON
chair fixed to il post. loop OF rope
was placed encircling his neck and
'ne post, ana Dy means OF stick or
cudgel tSpanish "garrote', inserted Be-.
tween the post and the condemned
mans neck the cord was frightened
until strangulation ensued.
Ahe modern gnrrote consists of a
pr'lss coilnr containing q sharp pointed
screw. Inc executloner turns the
screw. and its point pcnetrltes the
splnal marrow. causing nstaat death. 4
EVERY clyiiizel country does It's best
noWautys 70 make the dreadful task
oI execution ns rupid and painless as
possible. Hnnging as at present per- 4
lofnaig -asT'l very different matter from
w.llss'lt used to Dc f1 england,
lni nearly me end Of the eighteenth
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