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MISSOURI - CAPITAL PUNISEMENT

"Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 12, 1937-The State's first
lethal gas execution was perfommed late Monday with a
LOO=pound red pig the victim, Three minutes after
fifteen cyanide eggs were spilled from their metal

tray into a crock of diluted acid, sending up a steamy
cloud of vapor, the pig died. Warden J. M. Sanders
announced the test was satisfactory and that the State
would accpet thenew death chamber and pay the additional
25 percent of the $3,570 ctract price due after a favor-
ableBahdike danonstration, The Legislature last Spring
substituted asphyxiation for hanging as a means of exact-
ing the death penalty," NEWS, Dallas, Texas, 12-Lh-1937
(ec. Two, page fourteen, column ener

MISSOURI - CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

"Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 12, 1937-The State's first
lethal gas execution was perfommed late Monday with a
100-pound red pig the victim, Three minutes after
fifteen cyanide eggs were spilled from their metal

tray into a crock of diluted acid, sending up a steamy
cloud of vapor, the pig died. Warden J, M. Sanders
announced the test was satisfactory and that the State
would accpet thenew death chamber and pay the additional
25 percent of the $3,570 ctract price due after a favor-
ableBaNsiMke danonstration, The Legislature last Spring
substituted asphyxiation for hanging as a means of exact-
ing the death penalty," NEWS, Dallas, Texas, 12-1-1937
(Sec. Two, page fourteen, column one,$

MISSOURI - CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
"Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 12,

1937-The State's first
lethal gas execution was performed late Monday with a
100-pound red pig the victi Three minutes after
fifteen cyanide eggs were spilled from their metal
tray into a crock of diluted acid, sending up a steamy
cloud of vapor, the pig died, Warden Jd. M, Sanders
announced the test was satisfactory and that the S$
would accpet thenew death chamber and pay the addition:
25 percent of the $3,570 ctract price due after a fav

BK dan onstration, e Legislature last Spring

asphyxiation for hanging as a means of exact=

ing the death penalty," NEWS, Dallas, Texas, 12-11-1937
(Sec. Two, page fourteen, column one 5

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