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While serving a burglary term at San Quentin, Wells helped install the new gas chamber. He explained its workings to the other inmates, vowing, "That's the closest I ever want to come to the gas chamber." After he was paroled, Wells got into trouble again. When his family objected to an affair he was having with his half-sister, Violet, he killed his half-brother, the brother's wife and another woman in San Bernardino. Short, deformed, slender and slowed by a limp, Wells took off and became in 1941 the target of the biggest manhunt in Southern California to that time. A posse of more than 1,000 men scoured the desert between San Bernardino and Las Vegas for the man headlines called the notorious "Hunchback Killer."
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Prisoners deemed too weak to be good workers were sent to the gas chamber. To prevent panic, the Nazis told them they would be taking a shower. Instead, the disguised showerheads gassed the prisoners to death using Zyklon-B pellets. Zyklon B, a poisonous gas made from hydrogen cyanide crystals, was originally manufactured as a strong disinfectant and for pest control. The SS used Zyklon B for mass extermination in the gas chambers in an effort to satisfy Hitler's demand to annihilate all European Jews.
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With the new crematorium a gas chamber was ... connected. The whole construction of the crematorium with its gas chamber was completed in 1943. It contained an 'undressing room', a 'shower bath', and a 'mortuary'. The showers were metal traps which had no pipelines for a supply of poisonous gas. This gas chamber was never set in action in Dachau. Only the dead were brought to the crematorium for 'burning', no living for 'gassing'.
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Stark recalled that the roof above the gas chamber room was flat with openings through which "Zyklon B in granular form" was poured. On at least one occasion Stark himself poured the Zyklon-B in the holes. Stark recalled after the war that the Zyklon-B, "trickled down over the people as it was being poured in. They then started to cry out terribly for they now knew what was happening to them . . . After a few minutes there was silence. After some time had passed, it may have been ten or fifteen minutes, the gas-chamber was opened. The dead lay higgledy-piggledy all over the place. It was a dreadful sight."8
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California used the gas chamber as its method of execution until the execution of Robert Alton Harris in 1992. In that case, there was a flurry of last-minute litigation as attacks on the gas chamber, withheld until the eleventh hour, were unleashed in a ploy to stop the execution. See Gomez v. U.S. District Court, 503 U.S. 653 (1992). Justice Stevens wrote in dissent, "The unnecessary cruelty of this method of execution convinced Arizona's Attorney General that that State should abandon execution by gas in favor of execution by lethal injection. His conclusion coincides with that of numerous medical, legal, and ethical experts."
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There is only one good thing about the Marine gas chamber.... It will only occur once a year. This training day is often known of well in advance. So the "dodging" of the bullet begins early. From illness to volunteering for duty some Marines will try just about anything to avoid going through the dreaded gas chamber. Even though the amount of time spent in the gas chamber is only a few minutes, the memories will stay with you forever.
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