Gas Chamber Execution from 1945 Featuring a Westinghouse Electric Company Logo

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An American prisoner, sentenced to death, is strapped into a chair in the gas chamber.

The black hood carries a Westinghouse Electric Company logo.

Normally not the sort of thing a corporation would want to advertise, I would have thought.

Image via This Week’s Weegee.
Via boingboing.

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