Gee Jon - Wikipedia
Gee Jon (Chinese: 朱家休; [5] c. 1895 – February 8, 1924) was a Chinese national who was the first person in the United States to be executed by lethal gas. [6]
The Gas Chamber, 100 Years of Cruelty - Justia
Feb 19, 2024 · Professor Sarat details the origins and implementation of gas chambers, including the first execution of Gee Jon in Nevada and the various adaptations states made over the years, culminating in a critique of lethal gas as an inhumane method that has consistently resulted in torture and botched executions.
Gee Jon | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
Gee Jon was the first person in the United States to be executed by lethal gas. He was executed at the Nevada State Prison on February 8, 1924 for the crime of murder. Gee, along with Hughie Sing were convicted for killing Tom Quong Kee in Mina, Nevada on August 27, 1921.
Birth of Gas Chamber and Death of an Inmate | RealClearHistory
Feb 8, 2013 · The man who earned the dubious historical distinction of being the first condemned prisoner to die this way was Gee Jon, a Chinese-born gang member from San Francisco who shot an elderly member of a rival tong in a railroad town just across the Nevada state line.
Mina murderer the first to be executed by deadly fumes 95 ...
Feb 14, 2019 · The two men captured would be 29-year-old Gee Jon and 19-year-old Hughie Sing. Both slight in stature, neither were physically intimidating. China-born Jon stood 5 foot, 5 ¼ inches and weighed 129 pounds.
Past to Present: 100 Years Since the United States’ First ...
On February 8, 1924, Nevada executed Gee Jon, a Chinese immigrant convicted of killing the owner of a laundromat, using cyanide gas. A fellow prisoner, Thomas Russell, was also scheduled to be executed the same day but was resentenced to life by the Board of Pardons and Parole the previous evening.
Feb. 8, 1924: A New Way to Die - WIRED
Feb 8, 2007 · Gee Jon, a member of the Hop Sing Tong, was convicted of murdering Tom Quong Kee during a spate of tong warfare that broke out among rival Chinese gangs in the early 1920s. The shooting took...