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Death Penalty Deterrents?

Loaded on Dec. 15, 1994 published in Prison Legal News December, 1994, page 16
Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty. Location: California.
Former California Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown, in his book, Public Justice, Private Mercy, recounts how a plumber convicted of robbery was among the prisoners who built California's gas chamber at San Quentin. He helped to install it and watched test pigs die as the chamber's effectiveness was tested.

That experience ...

 

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