Army Lethal Injection Death Chamber Slated
Associated Press
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. —
A military death chamber designed for executions by lethal injection is being built at Fort Leavenworth.
The chamber, at the fort’s U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, the only maximum-security military prison in the United States, is being built to conform with a 1986 Army regulation calling for death by injection instead of hanging, military officials said last week.
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