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When irritating smoke begins to clear in the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma gas chamber during annual training, chemical biological radiological and nuclear defense specialists with MWSS-172 burn another CS capsule and make more. Then they herd in the next bunch of Marines.
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Before the gas chamber, hangings posed a problem for some witnesses. "So many witnesses fainted that we had to station extra guards around to help carry them out," Duffy wrote. But hanging Fridays were big days in the hillside village outside San Quentin. In the 1920s, the village saloons -- Figaro's, LaCante's and the back room of Kinney's grocery -- filled up with spectators after the 10 a.m. executions.
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According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "the gas chamber was ... used in pseudoscientific medical experiments involving poison gas. The victims of these experiments were primarily Roma (Gypsies) who had been transferred from Auschwitz. Prisoners were also subjected to experiments involving treatment for typhus and yellow fever."
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Macon currently uses a carbon monoxide-filled gas chamber to kill cats and dogs that are not adopted after they are seized by or surrendered to Animal Control. The state generally outlawed the practice in 1990, but allowed it to continue in communities like Macon where gas chambers had been constructed prior to that year.
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Sgt. Michael B. Atkins instructs Marines on how to wear full Mission Orientated Protective Posture gear during MOPP familiarization training Nov. 29 in front of the gas chamber on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. (Photo by Lance Cpl. Richard Blumenstein).
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Although the administrative authorities at Dachau, some famous prisoners and many historians are quick to point out that the large gas chamber at the camp was never used for homicidal purposes, there is at least some evidence to the contrary. Bishop Neuhäusler, for example, states:
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