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...massive chair in a room gradually filling with gas fumes, a husky, 20-year-old Negro in white trunks coughed, clenched his fists, expanded his chest and fiercely cried: "Joe Louis!" Such was the death two years ago of Allen Foster, first criminal to be executed in the lethal gas chamber of the North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh. The Foster execution lasted eleven minutes, provoked a storm of newspaper criticism. Today lethal gas executions are legal in six States besides North Carolina-Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, and Cali-fornia-and are increasingly efficient, but to many conservative criminals...
Last week 30 spectators flattened their noses curiously, against a bullet-proof glass wall in California's San Quentin prison to watch a preview of a lethal chamber which its makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died...
...might have been good enough for our grandfathers. But a hanging is no longer the fashionable thing it was once; a few U. S. States- Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, North Carolina and California- even kill their murderers with gas instead of electricity. Five of the country's lethal chambers have been made by the Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, which has a ghastly set of patents. Last week the fifth was sent off to San Quentin prison in California...
Last week grey-maned Dr. Malcolm Shaw MacLean, dean of University of Minnesota's General College, delivered the famed Inglis Lecture at Harvard, proposed that teaching of arithmetic continue through college. "I know of one nurse," said he, "who gave a child a lethal two-thirtieths of strychnine because there was no bottle containing one-sixtieth...
...years Dr. George Speri Sperti and his associates in Cincinnati have been studying the effects on yeast cells and other organic material of ultraviolet radiation obin the short, lethal wave lengths. It was noticed that when some cells were injured by radiation, the life processes of uninjured cells were stimulated. The Cincinnati researchers radiated some yeast cells long enough to kill them all, then took the fluid containing the cell corpses, centrifuged and filtered it, added it to a suspension of normal cells. The "respiration" (oxygen intake) of these was observed to increase by 10%. It appeared that before they...