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Subject: Re: memorable scenes (Gas chambers)
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Subject: Re: memorable scenes  (Gas chambers)

I have the same recollection of a vivid depiction of a person being "murdered"
in a gas chamber.  But I'm pretty sure it was a different movie.  I remember
that it was about some criminal called the "Red Light Bandit" who ultimately
became a model prisoner, and ended up studying law while in prison to the
point where he had developed a fine legal mind.

Of course, after many close calls, he loses a final stay and is executed in
a rather emotionally wrenching and repulsing scene (which I later discovered
was absolutely "technically accurate") in the gas chamber.

I have always been opposed to capital punishment, but this drove home the nail.
It left me with the feeling that we hadn't progressed much from the days of
human sacrifice and burning witches.

If you really want to find out just how cruel and unusual an execution is,
read a book called "Deathhouse".  It makes the Excorcist look like a fairy
tale, and it's not fiction.

	Dave Blickstein

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