Tata said that not even the army or commandoes who ultimately took over the offensive were prepared for the level of organization and execution that the attackers seemed to have put into their plan.
We are prepared to move forward immediately with formal due diligence and the negotiation and execution of a definitive merger agreement, and believe that with adequate access to the necessary information and people, we can complete both in approximately two weeks.
Though Kemmler confessed to the crime and said publicly that he was prepared to die, Westinghouse secretly financed an all-out legal effort to win a stay of execution, challenging the constitutionality of electrocution.