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Bookmark or Share- The Gas Chamber, 100 Years of Cruelty - JustiaProfessor Sarat details the origins and implementation of gas chambers, including the first execution of Gee Jon in Nevada and the various adaptations states made over the years, culminating in a critique of lethal gas as an inhumane method that has consistently resulted in torture and botched executions.
- Mina murderer the first to be executed by deadly fumes 95 ...The two men captured would be 29-year-old Gee Jon and 19-year-old Hughie Sing. Both slight in stature, neither were physically intimidating. China-born Jon stood 5 foot, 5 ¼ inches and weighed 129 pounds.
- First execution by lethal gas | February 8, 1924 - HISTORYThe executed man was Gee Jon, a member of a Chinese gang who was convicted of murdering a rival gang member.
- Past to Present: 100 Years Since the United States’ First ...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 previous evening.
- Gee Jon - WikipediaGee Jon (Chinese: 朱家休; [5] c. 1895 – February 8, 1924) was a Chinese national who was the first person in the United States to be executed by lethal gas. [6]
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