Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court May 7, 1901 (Storti v. Commonwealth)

Holmes, C. J.

These proceedings are respectively a writ of error and a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Both are intended to raise the same issue, that the punishment, death by electricity, to which the said Storti has been sentenced, under St. 1898, c. 326, § 6, is “ cruel or unusual” within article 26 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.