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The Unquiet Death of Robert Harris
Kroll, M. | July 6, 1992 issue

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The article presents an eyewitness account of the execution by a friend Robert Alton Harris, who met the condemned man in 1984 while writing an article about Harris's neighbor on death row. Harris was put to death in California's gas chamber on April 21 for the 1978 murder of two teenagers, John Mayeski and Michael Baker. His case was the first lethal gassing in twenty-five years-generated intense media scrutiny around the world. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action civil rights suit challenging the use of cyanide gas as cruel and unusual punishment. The author reports that some witnesses were shuffling nervously during the brutal act and people were looking at their watches.

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HARRIS, Robert Alton; PUNISHMENT; DEATH; CYANIDES; GAS chambers; MURDER; TEENAGERS; CIVIL rights
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