gas chamber

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Woods denounced the gas chamber just as others in Arizona had once denounced hanging, saying that it was barbaric and out of step with modern standards of justice.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

In March 2019, Governor Newsom issued an executive order that halted the death penalty in the state and ordered the dismantling of the gas chamber in San Quentin.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2024

They’ve just spent time in the grimmest section of the Holocaust exhibit, where they had to file through brick tunnels into a stark, windowless room that evokes a gas chamber.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2023

During Friday's commemorations, Holocaust survivors wearing hats and scarves in the blue and white stripes of camp uniforms and others laid candles on the ruins of a gas chamber.

From Reuters • Jan. 27, 2023

I did not care to risk contracting our gas chamber for fear of losing gas.

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)