THE ELECTRIC CHAIR.

Shannon News, 10 February 1928, Page 3

THE ELECTRIC CHAIR.

“MOST INHUMAN.” PARIS, January 20. “I have no hesitation in pronouncing the electric chair the most inhuman form of execution conceived in the minds of men,” declares Professor Rota, the noted expert on Telluric currents, apropos of the death of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, the sash-weight murderers, in U.S.A., who, he says were tortured to death. “People asked me why, if they were not dead and were suffering the most frightful torture;' Mrs Snyder did not scream and gave no sign of the suft'eiing she was undergoing. ’“'The-brutal fact is that the contortion of the nerves of her vocal cords was such that she could not. It was impossible for her even to moan. Ael she may have been still alive and cn conscious.” He added that he did not believe anybody who was electrocuted died instautlv. In some cases a person might be alive and even conscious for several minutes, without it being possible for a doctor to say whether he was dead 01 not.