... electric chair and soon other states adapted this method. In 1924 in an effort to make executions more humane Nevada introduced yet another method of execution; the gas chamber. Gee Jon was the first to be executed utilizing this method. At first the state tried pumping cyanide gas into his cell while he was sleeping but this obliviously failed and so ... ...

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