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Feb 08, 2024

Past to Present: 100 Years Since the United States’ First Lethal Gas Execution, a Recently Renewed Practice

Today, February 8, marks the 100-year anniver­sary of the first lethal gas exe­cu­tion in the United States, exact­ly two weeks after Alabama car­ried out the first exe­cu­tion using nitro­gen gas. On February 8, 1924, Nevada exe­cut­ed Gee Jon, a Chinese immi­grant con­vict­ed of killing the own­er of a laun­dro­mat, using cyanide gas. A fel­low pris­on­er, Thomas Russell, was also sched­uled to be exe­cut­ed the same day but was resen­tenced to life by the Board of Pardons and Parole the…