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On the eve of the Kansas Legislature's adjournment last week, Governor Harry Woodring vetoed three bills to restore Death by electricity as the maximum Kansas punishment for first-degree murder or robbery with firearms. The last legal execution by the State was in 1870. Amid a chorus of...
In the issue of Feb. 23, p. 36, you refer to a forthcoming opera called Merry Mount. Mention is made of a witch-burning episode. The producers are able to make their characters do anything, I suppose, but, as far as I know, there have never been witch-burnings in...
The execution of its financing program gave the Treasury a tidy little profit. The matured notes bore 3½% interest. They were retired with a bond issue at 3⅜% and (figuratively) short-term securities at 2% and 1½%. This represented a reduction from 3.75% to 3.72% in the...
At the police station the firm of Torres & Mutiz confessed that they took orders for several types of bomb: noise bombs, tear bombs, gas bombs, and large dynamite bombs for effective execution. Most important, they named as one of their customers Manuel Triana, Liberal leader of Matanzas, whom President Machado...
Where the trouble is of a more personal character, the G. P. U. is equipped to carry an individual through the stages of arrest, interrogation, sentence and if necessary execution without going outside its own organization. For this reason it is said that "The Ogpu is the State." But as...