18 JULY 1891, Page 33

EXECUTION BY LIGHTNING.

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J

SIR,-I have read with interest your article on " Execution by Lightning," in your number of July 11th. In it you truly state some of the reasons why Englishmen, or, indeed, any men, should look with abhorrence on such executions. It is a curious thing to see the " advanced " American nation degrading the name of man and the human race by using the living bodies of men as subjects for secret experiment.—I