How the process of an execution by gas chamber, in the U.S., looks like
I wasn’t a pleasant way to die. It had to be very emotional and stressful despite an inmate waiting for the execution for a long time. First, the inmate was sent to have a shower. After the shover he got the clothes. In the past, they often gave a white shirt , black pants to men and a skirt to women. But in the modern era, were inmates executed in a one colour prison uniform. The inmate could have his last call, last meal, and write a goodbye letter. According to many resources, they probably didn’t give to the inmate any shoes after the shower. That’s because inmates in a gas chamber were executed barefooted.
So he had to go the whole way from the cell to the gas chamber without shoes so they often put a carpet on the floor to don’t let the inmate walk on cold concrete as he had bare feet. When they entered the gas chamber, guards strapped the inmate to the chair and asked him to say his last words. Then they asked him if he wanted to cover his eyes. If yes, they covered them. After this, guards left the gas chamber and turned on a poison gas. Inmates were requested to take a deep breath to make the execution fast. Unfortunately, the gas made incredible pain, so it was very common that inmates' bodies shake. After he died, guards took his body from the chair and took off all his clothes. They washed settled gas from his feet and took the body from the gas chamber strapped on a board. After this was the execution over, and the inmate could be buried.
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