Wegee photo of a man about to be executed wearing a hood with a Westinghouse logo on it


This execution brought to you by Westinghouse? I'd have guessed that Thomas "DC current is safer" Edison was behind it, but this fellow is in the gas chamber, not on an electric chair.

RelatedThe Execution of Egyptian Samiha Hamid who was 30, she condemned of killing her husband.


From the Getty Images description: circa 1945: An American prisoner, sentenced to death, is strapped into a chair in the gas chamber. The black hood carries a Westinghouse Electric Company logo.

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