The End of a Myth: Foreword to the “Leuchter Report”
Fred A. Leuchter, 45, is an engineer living near Boston who has specialised in the design of execution hardware used in prisons throughout the United States. One of his major projects was the design of a new gas chamber at the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City, Missouri. In January of 1988, I was in Toronto, Canada,…