State v. Evans

In State v. Hecker, recently decided, we examined aE the arguments made against the validity of the constitutional amendment of 1920 restoring capital punishment as well as all the arguments advanced in support of the notion that no statute exists prescribing the method of executing the death penalty. We decided in State v. Hecker that the constitutional amendment of 1920, designated as Article I, Sections 37 and 38 (Laws 1921, *508p. 6), had been regularly adopted and that the method of executing the death penalty is prescribed by statutory authority; and, consequently, it is not necessary again…