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The last person to be executed in the gas chamber in Arizona was the German national Walter LaGrand, an armed robber put to death in 1999. A witness account published in the Tucson Citizen said it took LaGrand 18 minutes to die. The witness account said he "began coughing violently three or four loud hacks and then, in what appeared to be his last moments of consciousness, he made a gagging sound before falling forward at about 9:15 p.m."

Well that certainly seems humane. Yes, totally.

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