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Draft:List of people executed by Lethal Gas

Lethal gas is the practice of killing another person with lethal gas.[1] It can be either a toxic gas like hydrogen cyanide or an inert gas like Nitrogen. It also typically is used in a gas chamber. Although hydrogen cyanide used to be the favored type of gas used it has fallen out of favor for Nitrogen gas due to reports of suffering when using hydrogen cyanide.

The United States was the first country to use the gas chamber, with its first use in 1924 with the execution of Gee Jon in Nevada. The gas chamber saw a steady rise in use between the 1930s and the rest of the pre Furman v Georgia Era. After the resumption of capital punishment in the United States it would see a decline in popularity in favor of Lethal Injection. This was because lethal injection was thought to be a more humane method of execution. However states are struggling to find Lethal Injection drugs they have moved back to older methods. One of them being lethal gas but with Nitrogen and not hydrogen cyanide.[2]

The Nazis however used the gas chamber as a method of genocide during the Holocaust to exterminate those they deemed undesirable. The Nazis would kill over 850,000 people in the gas chambers alone with much more during the red of the holocaust.[3]

Lithuania also used the gas chamber for a time however it was only in use from the 1930s till the Soviet invasion in 1940.

This list only includes people executed by the gas chamber as well as victims of the Holocaust and does not include people who died in industrial accidents caused by nitrogen.

This list also only contains people with an English Wikipedia article.

Deaths

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Name Born Died Age Nationality Executed in Executed for Ref.
Burton Abbott 1928 1957 29 American California murder [4]
Herman Allen 1905 1942 36 American North Carolina murder (3 counts) [5]
Joe Arridy 1915 1939 23 American Colorado murder, later pardoned [6]
Donald Bashor 1930 1957 27 American California murder (2 counts) [7]
Jesse Bishop 1933 1979 46 American Nevada murder [8]
Henry Adolph Busch 1931 1962 30 American California murder [9][10]
Ed Davis 1900 1938 38 American California murder (3 counts) [11]
Elizabeth Ann Duncan 1904 1962 58 American California murder [12]
Vender Duncan 1928 1959 31 American California murder (2 counts) [13]
Harvey Glatman 1927 1959 31 American California murder (3 counts) [14]
Lloyd Gomez 1923 1953 29 American California murder (9 counts) [15]
Barbara Graham 1923 1955 31 American California murder [16]
Jack Gilbert Graham 1932 1957 24 American Colorado murder (44 counts) [17]
Jimmy Lee Gray 1948 1984 34 American Mississippi murder [18]
Robert Alton Harris 1955 1992 39 American California murder (2 counts) [19]
Gee Jon 1895 1924 29 Chinese Nevada murder [20]
William Johansen 1905 1941 26 Danish California murder (3 counts) [9]
Caryl Chessman 1921 1960 38 American California kidnapping and rape [21]
William Edward 1928 1952 23 American California murder (6 counts) [22]
Donald Eugene Harding 1949 1992 43 American Arizona murder (3 counts) [23]
Edward Earl Johnson 1960 1987 26 American Mississippi murder [24]
Nathaniel Lipscomb 1929 1961 31-32 American Maryland murder (3 counts) [25]
David Edwin Mason 1956 1993 36 American Californa murder (5 counts) [26]
Alan Eugene Miller 1965 2024 59 American Alabama murder (3 counts) [27]
Aaron Mitchell 1930 1967 36-37 American California murder [28]
Luis José Monge 1918 1967 48 American Colorado murder [29]
Louise Peete 1880 1947 66 American California murder (4 counts) [30]
Andrew Pixley 1943 1965 22 American Wyoming murder (2 counts) [31]
Adam Richetti 1909 1938 29 American Missouri murder (4 counts) [11]
Henry Ruhl 1909 1945 36 American United States Federal Government murder [32]
Leonard Shockley 1941-1942 1959 17 American Maryland murder [33]
Sam Shockley 1909 1948 39 American United States Federal Government murder (2 counts) [34]
Kenneth Eugene Smith 1965 2024 58 American Alabama murder [9]
Juanita Spinelli 1889 1941 52 American California murder [9]
Miran Edgar Thompson 1917 1948 30 American United States Federal Government murder (2 counts) [35]
Ronald Wolfe 1930 1964 33 American Missouri child rape [36]
Henio Zytomirski 1933 1942 9 Polish Nazi Germany being Jewish [37]

References

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  12. ^ "People v. Elizabeth Duncan | Ventura County District Attorney". www.vcdistrictattorney.com. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
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  20. ^ "Nevada State Prison Inmate Case Files: Gee Jon". Nevada State Library and Archives. July 11, 2003. Archived from the original on May 27, 2008. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
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  25. ^ Gilbert Sandler (May 12, 1992). "Our last execution". The Baltimore Sun.
  26. ^ Richard C. Paddock (August 24, 1993). "Keeping His Vow, Killer Is Executed : Death penalty: David Edwin Mason dies in San Quentin's gas chamber shortly after midnight. He had refused all appeals on his behalf". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on August 23, 2021.
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  36. ^ "Rape Where Victim Lived". Archived from the original on 2009-05-12. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
  37. ^ Gutman, Israel (2006). Difficult Questions in Polish-Jewish Dialogue: How Poles and Jews see Each Other. Jacek Santorski & Co Agencja Wydawnicza. p. 106. ISBN 978-83-89763-95-2.

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