gas chamber

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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

The next day, Nisha has a seizure while visiting the site of a gas chamber.

From Slate • Aug. 2, 2023

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

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