She maintains, however, that if her pleas were rejected, she would go into the death chamber "speaking out for the love of God".

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Garza spent his final hours a few steps away from the death chamber at Terre Haute, Indiana, reading and talking to his lawyers.

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We can travel all across America and find case after case after case of men and women who have been wrongfully imprisoned, some sitting on the doorsteps of the death chamber.

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In 1992, Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years when he was put to death in the gas chamber for the 1978 murder of two teen-age boys.

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In a large heart attack, the area of cell death can cover the entire thickness of the chamber's wall.

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At the same time, Snyder also asks us to extend our circles of compassion, making us see that the child dying in the gas chamber was no different from the one being starved to death in the siege of Leningrad, or that the fate of the zek in the Gulag was not very different from that of the Russian prisoner in a German lager.

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The need for medical personnel to be inside the chamber rather than watching from outside merely to certify death follows rulings by a federal district court judge, Jeremy Fogel, that could have implications far beyond California.

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