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The Last Gasp

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by Scott Christianson


  Holohan, James B. (“Big Jim”), 118, 119, 147

  Homosexuals, 2

  Honeycutt, Warden H. H., 109, 114

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 67, 141

  Hop Sing Tong, 70

  Höss, Rudolf, 155

  Hossack, Anthony R., 35

  Hotel Roosevelt, 158

  House Un-American Activities Committee, 128

  Howard, L. O., 56

  Hudson Valley, 26, 27

  Huffaker, Dr. Anthony, 79, 82, 83, 90

  Hull, Cordell, 169

  Hull, Gov. Jane Dee, 228–29

  Human Betterment Foundation, 122

  humane execution, 2, 7, 10, 15, 30,

  Humane Execution Law, 15, 63–64, 69, 70, 72, 85

  human experimentation, 46, 57–58, 92, 147–48, 152

  Hungary, 158, 159

  Hunt, George W. P., 100–101

  Huntington Beach, California, 213

  Huntington Library, 118

  Hurley, J. R., 92

  Huxley, Aldous, 188

  hydrochloric acid, 110

  hydrocyanic acid. See hydrogen cyanide

  hydrogen cyanide, 6, 7, 8, 24, 29, 41, 55, 74–76, 77, 80–83, 85, 91, 92, 93–94, 96–98, 101, 109, 110, 112, 117, 131, 142, 152–55, 162–63, 166, 168, 213, 220–22

  hydrogen sulfide, 58

  IBM (International Business Machines), 127, 136

  Ickes, Harold, 130

  Idiots, 31

  IG Chemie, 168

  IG Farben. See Farben, IG

  Immerwahr, Clara, 38

  immigration, 5, 32, 55, 66–67, 92, 93, 134, 147, 166

  Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), 6, 98

  Indians, 5, 28, 72, 89

  “inhalariums,” 58

  insane, 25, 31, 122

  insects, 15, 46, 56–57, 62, 91, 93, 94, 97, 131

  Institute for Historical Review, 212–13

  Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, 164

  International Committee of the Red Cross, 55

  International Court of Justice in The Hague, 229–30

  International Jew, The, 88

  International Military Tribunal, 165

  International Workers of the World, 73“In the Penal Colony,” 16, 34

  IQ, 115

  Ireland, Gail, 115

  Israel, 191–93

  Italy, 6, 126, 128, 136, 138, 190

  Italians, 33, 38, 41

  Ives, Edward, 101–2

  I Want to Live! 182

  Jackson, Associate Justice Robert H., 164–65

  Jackson County, Missouri, 123

  Japan, 6, 66, 125, 128, 164, 170

  Japanese-American internment, 125, 138

  Jefferson City, Missouri, 222

  Jenkins, Ed, 112

  Jersey City, N.J., 127

  Jerusalem, 191

  Jews, 2, 8, 13, 27, 32, 37, 54, 86–89, 93, 117, 118, 125, 129, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 151–71, 176–77, 188, 190–93, 219, 221–22

  Jim Crow, 89, 144

  Johnny, Mamie, 72

  Johns Hopkins Medical School, 209

  Johnson, Edward Earl, 213–14

  Johnson, Gov. Edwin C. (“Big Ed”), 102, 103, 105

  Johnson, Guy B., 144–45

  Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, 5–6

  Johnson, Rep. Alfred, 66

  Joint Intelligence Committee, 157

  Jon, Gee, 1, 6, 70, 75, 77, 78–83, 87, 90, 92, 98

  Journal Courier (New Haven, Connecticut), 84

  Journal of Historical Review, 212

  Journal of the American Medical Association, 100

  Juárez, Mexico, 92

  Judgment at Nuremberg, 192

  Jukes, 26–28, 88

  Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity, The, 26, 88

  Jukich, Stanko, 85, 90

  Kady, Martin III, 225–26

  Kafka, Franz, 16, 34

  Kahn, Rep. Julius, 54

  Kaiser Wilhelm II, 51

  Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physikalische Chemie, 37

  Kaiser Wilhelm Institute’s Department E, 38

  Kansas, 194

  Kansas City, Missouri, 123

  Karski, Jan, 159

  Kee, Tom Quong, 69

  Kelley, William Cody, 104–7

  Kennedy, Foster, 135, 136

  Kenney, Mae E., 99

  Kentucky, 12

  Kessell, Albert, 121

  Keyes, Frederick G., 44

  kieselguhr, 92

  killing centers, 152, 157. See also names of individual camps

  King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr., 111, 200

  Kingsport, Tennessee, 47

  Kirchheimer, Otto, 13, 18

  Klement, Ricardo, 190

  Knight, Gov. Goodwin J., 182

  Korean War, 170, 195

  Krieger, Hans, 134

  Krupp, Alfred, 170

  Ku Klux Klan, 87, 101, 178

  Kuykendall, Cecil, 107

  LaGrand, Karl, 227

  LaGrand, Walter, 227–30

  Lake Erie, 51

  Lamson, David, 186

  Land, E. M., 145

  Landon, Alfred M., 130

  Landsberg Am Lech Fortress Prison, 87

  Lang, Dr. Harry C., 82

  Langhorst, Harry J., 98

  Lantzer, Stanley, 117

  Las Vegas, Nevada, 207

  Laughlin, Dr. Harry H., 135

  Laurence, Michael, 217

  Lawes, Warden Lewis, 184

  Lawrence, D. H., 26

  Lawrence, Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey, 167

  Lawrence, W. H., 159–61

  Lawson, David, 222–23

  League of Nations, 67, 68

  League of Women Voters, 67, 71

  Leake County, Mississippi, 213

  Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, 71

  Lee, Ivy Ledbetter, 128

  Lehrecke, Hans, 95

  Lend-Lease, 137

  Lenz, F., 87–88

  lethal chamber, 1, 4, 5, 23–33, 52, 64

  “lethal chambered,” 26

  lethal gas executions, 1, 2, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 30, 63–64, 112, 130, 141–63, 171, 175, 177–230

  lethal injection, 12, 13, 18, 29, 175, 203–4, 211–12

  Leuchter, Fred A., Jr., 221–22

  Lewis, Gilbert N., 44

  Lewis, Winford Lee, 45

  lewisite (methyl, G-34), 45–46, 48, 50, 57, 147–48

  lice, 131

  Liepmann, Moritz, 86

  Lincoln, Abraham, 87

  Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 133, 134, 139

  Lindbergh, Charles A., 119, 133, 134, 139

  Lindsey, William B., 212–13

  Linz, Austria, 152

  Lions Club, 67, 83

  Liston, Earl C., 103, 119–20, 193, 231–36

  “Little Lindbergh Law,” 186

  Livens Projector, 40, 51

  Lódź, 132

  Lohwasser, Daniel, 211

  London, 25, 157, 188

  London Fumigation Company, 98

  London’s Society of Arts, 25

  Long, William, 112

  Longstreth, Joseph E., 187

  Loree, Col. Leonor Fresnel, 66

  Los Angeles, 62, 66, 76, 78, 85, 122, 185–86, 217

  Los Angeles Harbor, 44

  Los Angeles Times, 84

  Louis, Joe, 111

  Louisiana, 214

  Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, 214

  Love, Gov. John Arthur, 198

  Lovelock, Navada, 63

  Lovenhart, Dr. Arthur S., 57–58

  Lublin, Poland, 157, 159–60

  lynching, 28, 100, 102, 108, 111, 117, 118–19, 140, 141, 144, 176, 178–79, 195

  Lyon, Gloria H., 219

  MacLaine, Shirley, 188

  MacMurray, Fred, 163

  Madison Square Garden, 102

  Mailer, Norman, 188

  Maine, 184

  Majdanek death camp, 152, 157, 159–60, 161

  Man, the Unknown, 132–33

  Manh
attan, 48, 127

  Manhattan Project, 45, 169

  manifest destiny, 28

  Mann, Thomas, 156

  Margaret, “Mother of Criminals,” 27

  Maricopa County, Arizona, 107

  Markiewicz, Jan, 222

  Marsh, Gen. Peyton C., 53

  Marshall, Justice Thurgood, 208

  Martin, Gov. Charles H. (“Iron Pants”), 122–23

  Marxism, 18, 88

  Maryland, 3, 47, 180, 206, 207, 215, 224

  Mask for Privilege, A, 164

  Mason, David, 219–20

  Mason, Perry, 187

  Massachusetts, 221

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43, 44, 47

  Mathewson, Christy, 49, 51

  mauguinite, 41

  Maurice, Emil, 88

  Mauthausen concentration camp, 152

  Max, 27

  Maxwell, Lucia R., 67

  Maxwell v. Bishop, 201

  Mazal, Harry W., 152–53

  McCarthy, LeRoy Hershel, 123

  McCarthy, Sen. Joseph, 177

  McClesky v. Kemp, 215

  McCloy, John J., 125–38, 159, 164, 169–71

  McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, 217

  McDaniels, Otis, 108

  McGill University, 137

  McKenna, Associate Justice Joseph, 71

  McKim, Dr. W. Duncan, 31, 133

  McPherson, Warden Alex, 117

  McWilliams, Carey, 164

  Medical Society of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 30

  medical uses of poison gas, 56, 57–58

  Meekins, Isaac, 60

  Mein Kampf, 7, 88–89, 127

  Mein Leben und Werk, 88

  Menschliche Erblichkeitslehre und Rassenhygiene, 87

  mentally defective, 6, 31, 114

  mentally retarded, 2, 6, 28, 114–15, 145–46

  Mermelstein, Mel, 213

  Merriam, Gov. Frank F., 119

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 119

  Mexicans, 91, 131

  Michigan, 184, 185, 195

  Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCoy, 170

  Midland, Michigan, 47

  Miller, Arthur, 177

  Miller, Col. Thomas W., 60–61

  Mina, Nevada, 69

  Mineral County, Nevada, 69

  mining, 61, 62, 63, 64

  Minnesota, 184

  Miranda v. Arizona, 201

  Mircovich, Andrizia, 62

  Mississippi, 3, 108, 143, 178–80, 206, 208–11, 213–14, 216

  Mississippi Coalition Against the Death Penalty, 210

  Mississippi River, 76

  Missouri, 3, 44, 117, 123–24, 178, 180–81, 206, 212, 221

  Missouri State Penitentiary, 222

  Mitchell, Aaron, 195–98, 203

  Mitchell, Charles E., 128

  Mitchell County, North Carolina, 108

  Mixed Claims Commission, 127

  mobile gas chamber, 108

  modernity, 14, 15, 16, 17, 28, 33

  modern state, 28

  Monge, Luis J., 198–99, 208

  Mooney, Tom, 187

  Moore, Martin, 113

  Moral Indignation and Middle Class Psychology, 139

  Morgan, J. P., 97, 126, 127

  Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury Henry, Jr., 170

  Mormons, 62, 64

  Moros, 54

  morphine, 29

  Moscow, Russia, 67

  Mossad, 191

  Mull, Everett T., 118

  Muller, Capt. Joe, 80, 82

  multiple execution, 146

  Munich, Germany, 86, 87, 162

  Münster, Germany, 151

  Murphy, Ambassador Robert D., 169

  Mussolini, Benito, 86, 87, 97, 127

  mustard gas, 39, 45, 47, 50, 56, 136, 147–48

  Mutual of New York Insurance Company, 137

  Myers, C. Kilmer, 195

  NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 200–201, 205, 206, 207

  Napoleon, 9, 29

  Nation, The, 31

  National City Bank, 128

  National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor, 63

  National Council for the Prevention of War, 67

  National Defense Act, 54

  National Origins Act, 89

  National Socialism, 176

  Native Americans, 5, 28, 72, 89, 140, 164, 191

  natural selection, 4

  Nazi Germany, 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 86, 95, 108–9, 118, 119, 123, 125, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134–37, 149–71

  Nazi Party, 119, 134, 165

  Nebraska Supreme Court, 12

  Negritos, 54

  Nelidoff, Count Alexander, 127

  Nevada, 3, 6, 15, 62–65, 66, 69–86, 87, 89, 90–91, 98–99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 117, 146, 151, 206, 207, 211, 228

  Nevada Mine Operators Association, 61, 65

  Nevada Prison death house, 72–74

  Nevada Republican Party, 70

  Nevada State Journal, 84

  Nevada State Penitentiary, 1, 72–73

  New Deal, 97, 102, 123, 129, 141

  New Horizons in Criminology, 178

  New Jersey, 61, 62, 65

  New Mexico, 3, 176, 180, 194, 206, 211

  Newport Beach, California, 212

  New York, 28, 29, 30, 32, 58, 136, 177, 194

  New York City, 26, 31, 84, 88, 126, 134, 135, 158, 162, 188

  New Yorker, 165, 191

  New York Medico-Legal Society, 29

  New York Prison Association, 26

  New York Quarantine Station, 94

  New York Times, 47, 51, 64, 70–71, 84, 88, 118, 156, 159–60, 161

  New York Times Magazine, 207

  New Zealand, 176

  Niagara Falls, Canada, 62

  Niagara Falls, N.Y., 47, 61

  Nicolle, Charles

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 139

  Nieuwland, Rev. Julius Aloysius, 45

  Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 217, 224–25, 228

  nitrogen fixation, 37, 61

  nitrous oxide, 30

  Nixdorff, Assemblyman Charles F., 136

  Nixon, Richard, 188, 203

  Nobel Prize, 52

  Norris, James F., 43

  North Carolina, 3, 60, 108–14, 122, 142, 143–45, 178, 206, 212, 216, 221, 222–23, 225–26

  North Carolina Joint Committee on Penal Institutions, 108

  North Dakota, 184

  Northwestern University, 45

  Norway, 175

  Notre Dame University, 45

  Novick, Peter, 156, 159, 192

  Nuremberg Tribunal, 128, 165–68, 170, 191, 230

  Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 169

  Obersalzberg, 88

  Oddle, Sen. Tasker L., 65

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 161, 168–69

  Oklahoma, 178, 205, 216

  Operation Disinfection, 37

  Oregon, 3, 44, 54, 67, 117, 122–23, 146, 176, 193, 194, 211

  Oregon State Penitentiary, 122

  Oregon State Police, 122

  Origin of Species, 4

  Ormsby County, Nevada, 82

  Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 135

  Osservatore Romano, L’, 188

  Oświęcim, Poland, 153

  Owen, Dr. Leo C., 82

  Pacheco, John, 107–8

  Pacheco, Louis, 107–8

  Pacific R & H Chemical Corporation, 66

  Packard, Prof. J. H., 29

  Page, Rep. U.S., 108

  pain, 16

  Palmer, Attorney General A. Mitchell, 67

  Panama Canal, 44

  Pan American Sanitary Code, 55

  Pantstwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 153

  Paramount Pictures, 129

  Parchman Penitentiary, 179, 210, 214

  Paris, 44, 127

  Park, James W.L., 198

  Parker, Dorothy, 188

  Pasadena, California, 118, 122

  Passing of the Great Race: The Racial Basis of European History, The, 31, 88

  Patel,
District Court Judge Marilyn Hall, 217–22, 224

  patents, 42, 43, 92, 95, 98, 120, 131

  Paxton, Robert, 86

  Pearl Harbor, 138

  Peck Gregory, 164

  Peele, George, 145

  Pehle, John W., 159

  Peloponnesian War, 36

  Pendleton, Gen. W. N., 36

  Pennsylvania, 30

  Pennsylvania Board of Public Charities, 30

  Penrose, Warden Matt, 99

  Pershing, Gen. John J. “Blackjack,” 44, 67, 122

  pest removal, 10, 14, 15, 55, 56–57, 92, 93, 94, 97, 131, 152, 164, 166

  Peter, William W., 135–36

  Peters, Gerhard, 92–93, 131, 166, 167–68

  Peterson, Dr. Charles A., 108, 111, 113

  Phelps Dodge, 126

  Philadelphia, 29, 58, 84, 125

  Philadelphia Record, 84

  Phil Donahue Show, 223

  Philippines, 44, 56, 122

  Phillips, Rosanna, 146

  phosgene (carbonyl chloride), 38–39, 47, 56,phosphorus, 47, 48

  Pickett, Tom, 78

  picric acid, 47

  Pittman, Sen. Key, 63, 64, 71

  Pitts, Oscar, 112

  Pittsburgh, 43

  poison gas, 26, 54, 55, 57–58, 67, 76, 136

  Poland, 109, 131, 134, 137, 149, 155, 157, 159, 222

  Polish Jews, 32, 132

  political prisoners, 2

  politics, 18, 19

  poor, 4, 14, 26

  Popenoe, Paul, 32, 88

  Porter, Bridgie M., 101

  Portland, Oregon, 193

  Porton Down, 38, 40, 58

  Portugal, 175, 190

  postmodern, 16

  potassium cyanide, 10, 32, 60, 61, 96, 98–99, 106, 110, 111, 112–13, 117, 189

  Pound, Roscoe, 135

  Powell, Rev. Adam Clayton, 118–19

  power, 17

  Prague, 34

  Prescott, Arizona, 107

  presidio, 85, 119

  prison revolts, 176

  prisoners’ rights movement, 176

  Progressives, 1, 5, 123

  Protestants, 118

  Prussic acid, 6, 29, 50, 59, 149, 165

  Pryor, Samuel F., 66

  Public Ledger (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 84

  public opinion, 55

  Pueblo, Colorado, 114

  Puerto Rican, 198

  punishment, 12–14, 16, 19, 139–41

  Punishment and Social Structure, 13

  Puteaux, 44

  Pure Food and Drug Act, 32

  Quakers, 41, 65

  Queen Victoria Rifles, 35

  race, 4–5, 6, 28, 30, 31–32, 75, 84, 87–89, 132, 133, 143–45, 164, 215

  racial segregation, 28, 89, 133, 144

  racial supremacy, 4, 6, 28, 135, 140

  Raffetto, Fiore, 71

  Raleigh, North Carolina, 110, 111

  Raleigh News & Observer, 108, 110, 111

  “Ralph.” See Respondek, Erwin

  Ranean, Inspector Dan, 82

  Ranulf, Svend, 139–40

  Rascon, Frank, 107

  Raskob, Jacob, 97

  Rassenrecht in den Vereinigten Staaten, Das, 134

 

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