Chap. 348.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an
act to establish a permanent place in the State penitentiary, at Rich-
wond, Virginia, for the execution of felons upon whom the death pen-
alty is to be imposed, and to change the mode of execution so that the
death sentence shall be by electricity, and to provide an appropriation
therefor, approved March 10, 1908.

Approved March 17, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four of an act entitled an act to establish a permanent place in the State
penitentiary, at Richmond, Virginia, for the execution of felons upon
whom the death penalty is to be imposed, and to change the mode of
execution so that the death sentence shall be by electricity, and to provide
an appropriation therefor, approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred
and eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§4. The said superintendent, or the assistants appointed by him, shall
proceed, unless a suspension of execution be ordered, at the time named
in said sentence, to cause the said felon under sentence of death to be
electrocuted until he is dead.

At the execution there shall be present the superintendent, or an
assistant, the surgeon of the penitentiary, or his assistant, and a number
of respectable citizens numbering not less than six nor more than twelve.
The counsel for the convict and minister of the gospel may be present.