gas chamber

Example Sentences

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The gas chamber had been introduced in the United States by the state of Nevada in 1921.

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

Newsom announced a moratorium on executions in 2019 and dismantled the prison’s gas chamber, and in 2022 he announced plans to begin transferring inmates sentenced to death to other prisons.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023

We went through a gas chamber, to see that the masks were O. K., and to give us confidence in them.

From History of Ambulance Company Number 139 by Various