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Auschwitz Controversies
Persist

EXPLANATION.
Controversy persists among revisionists over whether the
Nazis could have safely used hydrogen-cyanide for mass execution procedures in primitive gas chambers in their
“death camps”. News items tend to bear out that the poison is notoriously fickle, dangerous, and unselective in whom it kills.

Unedited news item published in The Winston Salem Journal,
North Carolina, USA on June 5, 1998

THE WINSTON SALEM
JOURNAL, JUNE 5, 1998

House
Panel approves bill to eliminate gas executions

THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS

RALEIGH — Condemned inmates could no longer choose
cyanide gas as an execution method under a bill approved
yesterday by a House committee.

“This is designed as a personnel safety matter for the
Department of Correction,” Rep. Larry Justus,
R-Henderson, told the House Judiciary Committee.

“What’s been happening during some of the gas-chamber executions … is that some of the gas has escaped to the prison area,” he said. “In the last one, when they were carrying out the deceased, some of the gas escaped and the equipment supplying oxygen malfunctioned.”

Approved on a voice vote, the bill goes before the full House.

The bill, which originated with a study commission between legislative sessions, would permit execution only by lethal injection in North Carolina.

Under the present law, a condemned inmate has until five days before his execution is carried out with has.

Lethal injection, Justus said, is also a more humane method of execution.

“I have talked to people who have witnessed executions by lethal gas, and it is not pleasant to watch,” said
Justus.

There are 183 inmates on death row. Justus said that only five inmates have been executed since he came to the
General Assembly in 1985.

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