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Robert Alton Harris – California’s First Execution in 25 Years

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Execution Details On Tuesday, April 21, 1992, 39-year-old Robert Alton Harris was put to death in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison in California’s first execution in 25 years. He had been sentenced to die for the particularly brutal killing of two teenage boys in 1978, whose car he had hijacked for use in … Read more

The Gas Chamber

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Between 1924 and 1999, 589 men and seven women were put to death in the gas chambers of various American states. At its peak, 11 states had adopted this method, these being, Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming.  Eleven men have been gassed in five states since the … Read more