The Ocala evening star., 1911-03-31
CAPITAL PENALTY
Some Curious Methods of Exc
cutting Criminals.
MOROCCO USES THE LASH.

fio99Ins to Death 10 SSiif IN vogue /
Among the Moors-StransuIation Is |
Employed In Austria, and Spain
CIinds to the Garrote.
There are many curious methods Of
inflicting capital punishment in the
various countries of the old world.
some of them tinged with the cruelty
Of the dark ages.
Morocco is perhaps the most mediae-
val country in existence. Flogging TO
death Is still in vogue 1t is not SO
very long ago that Mulai Hafd had
the Shereef Kittain executed I'm this
horrible fashion
The ameer Of Afghanistan has Pc
culiar methods of making the punish
ment fit the crime. A baker. for sell
ing short weight. was roasted in his
own oven, and a man who had started
a scare that the Russians were ad-
vancing on Kabul was placed on
stool fastened on top of a tall pole
and kept there on sentry go till he died
of sleeplessness and exhaustion.
| In Persia and the revolutionists. when
! caught. are dealt with summarily.
Four conspirators who were recently
Taught in the act of throwing bomb
n the crowded bazar at Teheran were
anged and quartered In the same
shion that prevailed In England up
1.-The seventeenth century. The re-
Hns Of the wretched men were hung
city gates as a horrible warning.
Austrian officer convicted of poi
his superior officers in the at
to win promotion was sentenced
ltrangled.
Ia is the only country which
this particular method of ex.
but Spain's garrote is very
The original method of gar
!. 3. in fact. nothing but stran-
CO criminal was seated on a
to a post. loop of rope
. Int encircling his neck and
= cu0d by means of stick or
twe'sh 'garrote'0 inserted be-
: man ,st and the condemned
ontn he cord was tghtened
ihe ion ensued
. ofass cgarrote consists Of q
screw. aiming sharp pointed
screw, ;ecutioner turns the
splnai maoint penetrates the
Every clsing instant death.
nowadays ountry does its best
OF execudo the dreadful tasl
possible lid and painless a.
formed is a vs. at present per
what it used rent matter from
Till nearly tEngland.
century the conf the eighteenth
TO stand in a c.man was mad
h1s neck. and thea rope arount
away from undens then driver
4; !: : : ! ): !: =
~ the length Of the dro,portionin
the body. weight O
The state of New y
the electric chair manugurate
Its only advantage otago. bu
that the man who switclging
a rent is out of sight of thlhe cul
81 Der and so escapes the g chan
of public executioner. tit
Formerly all criminals
died by the ak, and undoElan
ak In the hands of a skill tt
man was as merciful an fnstld
II death as any which exist tc I
u Prussia decapitation by the a ]
the recognized method of ex
FRESH out the rest of Germany foil,
EGGS example Of France and uses tb
tine
'ket ,.1s Execution &c sosnts had l., almost eseon
was so aroused by the ever inc
number of brutal murders that
uary. 1909. the widow" as the
term the instrument. was drag
OF Its retirement and four mis-
were publicly executed at Beth
the north of France
The guillotine was invented
doctor named Guillotin more
century ago. but it is not true t
inventor fell victim to his O
vice He died quietly in his be,
gu1ilotine consists of two uprigt
Qf0F grooved on the inside An INN
heavy and sharp steel blade is
slide In these grooves. and the
TONER has nothing TO do but
rope. when the blade drops and
1tates the victim instantly.
There are a few countries
capital punishment has been abe
notably Switzerland. In Ital
there have been no executions f.
onenses for many years past-S
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