And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Revelation 20:4<\/i><\/p>\n
600<\/b> The Death Penalty<\/b><\/p>\n
The American public has consistently backed capital punishment. In a Gallup Poll in 1976, 65%, approved of it. But bet ween 1966\u201376, no executions occurred in the US. The Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 decision, abolished capital punishment in June 1972. Death row now has about 450 inmates. <\/p>\n
However, since the Supreme Court\u2019s decision over 32 of the 50 states have voted to restore the death penalty. On May 25, 1979, John A. Spenkelink, a 30-year-old drifter, who committed murder, was put to death in the electric chair in Florida. The US Supreme Court refused to delay his death. He was the first person to be executed in the US since Gary Gilmore in 1977. Gilmore had actively demanded to die and was executed in Utah under the firing squad. <\/p>\n
601<\/b> The Guillotine<\/b><\/p>\n
Records show that the last person to be publicly guillotined in France was the murderer Weidmann in 1939. Bible revelation shows that this form of capital punishment will be revived when Anti christ sets up his world kingdom at the Great Tribulation. <\/p>\n
602<\/b> Hot Seat Got Cold Reception<\/b><\/p>\n
One of our most bitterly fought laws was the New York State statute, passed on June 4, 1888, that substituted the electric chair for the gallows. Its chief opponents were certain public utilities which believed the use of electricity in executions would have a bad effect on the millions who, in those days, were still afraid of it. <\/p>\n
So the validity of the law was attacked unsuccessfully in several courts on the grounds that electrocution was \u201ccruel and unusual punishment\u201d and therefore its adoption violated the U. S. Constitution. These attacks stopped two years later when experiments on animals proved that such a death was \u201cimmediate and absolutely painless.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, manufacturers refused to sell the necessary materials to the man who was to build the chair, making it necessary for him to have a friend in Brazil buy the equipment and ship it back to the United States. <\/p>\n
Finally, on August 6, 1890, the apparatus went into service in Auburn prison with the execution of Willie Kemler who, paradoxically, had eagerly looked forward to this day when he would go down in history as the first man in the world to die in the electric chair. <\/p>\n
\u2014Freling Foster<\/p>\n
603<\/b> 20 Minutes Between Eternity<\/b><\/p>\n
A colored man Jim Williams got his freedom after the officials who were supposed to pull the switch of his electric chair would not do it. The story:<\/p>\n
In 1926, after he had been strapped in the electric chair of the Florida State Penitentiary, Jim Williams waited for 20 minutes. Both the warden and the sheriff tried to get the other to pull the switch. Williams was unstrapped and returned to his cell. <\/p>\n
For having been subjected to this form of torture, Williams\u2019 sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Eight years later, he was fully pardoned after saving two lives on the prison farm. <\/p>\n
604<\/b> Death On Prime Time<\/b><\/p>\n
Pastor Paul Tinlin of the 250-member Evangel Assembly of God Church in Schumburg, Illinois, is getting a lot of press attention in the midwest. It all started when Tinlin, 41, wrote a letter to a local newspaper disagreeing with an editorial that praised the Supreme Court for in effect striking down the death penalty. <\/p>\n
His letter stirred up sharp reaction prompting a stiffer stance by Tinlin. \u201cThere should be swift and sure justice for those who kill\u2014and that should be public execution, and the execution should be on prime-time TV,\u201d declared the minister. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to start letting society see life for real,\u201d he explained to a Chicago reporter. \u201cSociety should know that killing isn\u2019t like on TV shows where the victim gets up and walks away when the show is over, that when real people get killed they are dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tinlin told his questioning 12-year-old daughter that seeing executions on TV \u201cwould probably make me sick, that it would be gruesome.\u201d But, said he, \u201cmurder is also gruesome, and society has to start taking it seriously.\u201d He cited a verse in Genesis: \u201cWhoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.\u201d Maybe, he said, it\u2019s time for God\u2019s harvest law to be followed. <\/p>\n
\u2014Christianity Today<\/i><\/p>\n
605<\/b> Emperor On Electric Chair<\/b><\/p>\n
The Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia used an electric chair as his royal throne for many years. How come? During the late 1890s, the Emperor was told of the new method of executing criminals in the United States by electrocution. So he ordered three electric chairs from the States. But alas, he forgot that electricity had not yet been introduced into his country. To save his investment, he appropriate the same as his royal chair. <\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Deaths ; Martyrdom ; Persecution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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