Gas Replaces The Noose (Jun, 1937)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1937
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1937
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Gas Replaces The Noose
FOLLOWING the lead set by Nevada, Arizona and Colorado in the quick and painless method of executing criminals by gas, Wyoming has installed a lethal gas chamber to replace the noose, a now fast disappearing method of capital punishment. The Wyoming death chamber, manufactured by a Denver, Colorado, firm, is claimed to be the most humane yet devised. Several other states are said to be considering the adoption of gas chambers for legal executions.
Booth-babes for gas chambers! Let’s check out the electric chair booth!
Comment by mrdweeb — January 28, 2009 @ 11:09 pm
Screw this! I say bring back the guillotine!
Comment by John M. Hanna — January 29, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
Screw poison gas!
My choice would be a mix of carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide and helium.
(Death with high pitched giggling!)
Comment by jayessell — January 29, 2009 @ 10:13 pm
Yeah, 1937…I’m going to guess this one didn’t end up on the ‘humane’ list for too much longer.
Comment by fizzyg — January 30, 2009 @ 2:35 am
Execution by gas chamber (assuming use of hydrogen cyanide) is far more distressing and traumatic than a correctly performed hanging. Nitrogen is a better alternative since it is fast, painless and the victim is not even aware they are dying. All you really experience is the feeling of being uninhibited, muddled, and you don’t really care what’s happening. It’s like being very drunk.
Comment by Paul — January 30, 2009 @ 10:41 pm
Am I to assume you have be executed using nitrogen and come back? No one knows what it is like to die, or what a persons last thoughts are, we are all on the outside looking in. Perhaps we could offer a choice, would you like Zyklon-B, and I think nitrogen is supposed to be nitrous oxide, or cyanide?
Comment by blueferretdog — January 31, 2009 @ 8:58 am
blueferretdog, if I had a choice I would choose not to die.
Comment by Mike — January 31, 2009 @ 10:26 am
I agree, I wonder if anyone should die, and if there is even a “humane” way to put someone to death(against their will).
Comment by blueferretdog — January 31, 2009 @ 1:58 pm
blueferretdog, actually Zyklon-B was cyanide.
Comment by Firebrand38 — February 3, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
Thanks, I didn’t know that, I thought the Nazis had developed a nerve gas, perhaps it had a different name.
Comment by blueferretdog — February 4, 2009 @ 8:17 am
Ah, now I see….the Germans developed what we call the G-series of non-persistent nerve agents: tabun, sarin,soman and cyclosarin(respectively GA, GB, GD and GF).
Comment by Firebrand38 — February 4, 2009 @ 6:01 pm