Show AGREE LETHAL I J GAS AS D DEATH ATH Tiji IS BO PAINLESS na i I ny 11 LET O N 0 Standard r Special Corre Core Correspondent Copyright 1924 by the Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press A As f ARSON AHSON CITY Ne Nev rob D- D 9 I Those Thone who ho t ho u the first lethal gas fn h here re y Fridy were ere unanimous In lii declaring that If the thC they had to suffer aucter capital pun lehment punishment hey hey would prefer to die that way v sy y All Alt agreed that came upon the condemned man mant manu v t a small mall fraction ofa of a sec second ond after the first wa wat wave e of lethal lethalIa Ia gas truck struck him They also aho lo ed that both oth and death e vee e completely devoid of pain pal n Attesting th the hum humaneness nene and of n the tue ga gas method to I bythe the result of o a poll taken by the correspondent nt on OIlI among nong 11 other s to the execution The propounded to etch eich v as Provided Baa JI Provided d you ou i ere condemned to lIe todie tolie and hid had your our choice of o hang hang- log ing hanging electrocution or lethal Ithal gas gaa which Mould ouM yOU choose ti o GS G'S In every very the answer wa the same lethal gas gao of opinion among the seen seven per per- per on ons who tto 10 officially watched the tho snuffing out of the life IIlo of Ge Gee Inn Chinese tong tonS highbinder wa a that lack Inck of ot proper paraphernalia for the first experiment and too low a a temperature In the oton stone exe- exe execution exe execution cution chamber to permit prOP proper Or of ot the deadly cyanic cyanic mixture pre prevented the life of the Oriental from being snuffed Out lut In the Flue twinkling of an en e eve ee e But Dut the tho all eli agreed that the Chinaman died within a second after arter the first full charge of gas struck truck him The movements of the body not not- noted noted not noted ed six minutes after Arter the gas a as turned on Were In reality not sign of lifo lite but the tho of the system t which comes ome at- at after atter af after ter th de Major D A Turner of the Unit Unit- United United ed States Stales medical corps was ae as- as as assigned signed he hele hei e a as official military oh- oh ob observer server sers I cr of or the tho execution threw some ome interesting light upon the lethal a method GIG Il E Eu Even en under the handicaps of Improper equipment said Raid Major Turn Turner r lethal gas method Is the and most humane method of putting a II human to death del Hang Hang- ing Hanging Is iq the cruelest crudest Frequently hanged men Ar are conscious from e en to 1 15 minutes minute after arter the trap Is sprung In electrocutions It I is frequent necessary to shock a 0 aman man mait three and four tour times before he I Is dead There are no cl scientific n- n tin tin tin- pi oot that he I Is not conScious durin during such uch an ordell In In shooting executions execution con con- con consciousness does dou not Ia always lease with the riddling of the heart l gas however howeler produces Ins Instantaneous unconsciousness and practically death There Ther I Is no chance chanc for Dam pain or suffering In In Friday Fridays execution It was it- it ImpossIble Im Impossible possible to heat the tha Interior of the stone allo walled 1 execution chamber to the required 70 or 80 degree degrees The Th temperature wa was 49 The result wa was wan that the lethal gas was vIlS Instead of vaporized Into fine particles particle It also AleO took a 1 full minute and ahalt halt ft-halt to pump th the I d chamber full of gas KU With proper equipment and a gla glass lined death could ll ne he mad made both Instantaneous Instantaneous I and 1 painless EW KW TLE GF GF By n A C BURG I International esse n Service Serice Staff I I CARSO cn Y Nev New rem Feb II- II 9 The wol id Il a net neat lethal gns gas tion execution will probably take place bo- bo beneath be beneath neath a shaped pear canopy of solid glas glass So declared dec Dr A Huffaker physician at t the state prison Ir lucre here tonight In discussing the death at the prison yesterday of Gee Jon Chinese slayer In the tho first execution bv by gas To eliminate the tr great t l danger bylaw from which witnesses required by law Jaw and anti those thoe necessary to COn COn- con duct duet conduct the 11 gas death are subjected new apparatus Is Ic I n needed ded said OI Dr Huffaker r It if the lethal go gas exe- exe execution exe execution cution Is to to be he continued In ord order r to Insure Inure ditty It must he pe con ducted conducted with lIh the apparatus I am amno now similar v designing or something simi aimi lar Dr call can for placing the condemned person be- be beneath be beneath neath n a canopy of o heavy glass nIn In a stone lone out outer r structure Tho Th canopy or shell shen shaped like Uke a pear Ier would b from rom the c ceiling victim 0 over oter er the head bead of th the vie vic vic victim tim strapped Into the execution chair top a a a pedestal Y Pressing of or a 0 button 0 tow low lower low lower er or the canopy over oser the condemned hll shile prison guards clamped damped It In- In Into Into In Into to place and sealed It with wax to the The apparatus hoot hooting ing the d deadly adly gas by the Nevada evada evada I would be located beneath the tal pede-tal and would w cus cause causa death del In Inless Inless les less than five seconds second On raised chairs around the glass glas death house houte the witnesses would sit alt In safety safet Warden Varden Denver Denter S DIckerson taid ald tonight gr greit lt difficulty had been met In the execution of ot the lh Ih chinese o Friday In mis setting getting the death vault to the proper temperature required to make the use UBe u e ot of the gas effective and speedy He said he believed the gl glass canopy plan would solve Ihl this difficulty r I am In favor faor of the lethal gas execution If it spectators are not sub subjected to the death dealing turn fumes said Bald the 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