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The gas chamber that was located in San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California. The chamber was dismantled in 2019 when Governor Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on capital punishment in California and ordered the execution sites to be…

The lethal injection bed used in the "Old Main," the retired Southern part of the Penitentiary of New Mexico.

Engraving of Union soldiers executing deserters via firing squad

Abolitionist John Brown, about to be sentenced to death in 1859, addresses the court. Broadside sold at "The Liberator", Wm. Lloyd Garrison's newspaper.

A poster encouraging people to buy war bonds

A Photograph of the McCloud lumber mill itself with logs floating in the river outside waiting to be milled

A large group of male field workers pose together in the vineyards of Guasti, the wine community in Ontario.