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I have added the sources you've requested. AndyL 22:50, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Your additions are an exercise in distortion:


 * Fred A. Leuchter was widely held as an expert. Fon instance, as The Rudolf Report reveals:
 * "A feature article in The Atlantic Monthly (Feb. 1990), for example, factually described Leuchter as “the nation’s only commercial supplier of execution equipment. […] A trained and accomplished engineer, he is versed in all types of execution equipment. He makes lethal-injection machines, gas chambers, and gallows, as well as electrocution systems […]”


 * Similarly, a lengthy New York Times article (October 13, 1990), complete with a front-page photo of Leuchter, called him “The nation’s leading adviser on capital punishment.”

This would be the same NY Times article which quoted an expert anesthesiologist on Leuchter's lethal injection machine saying "His injection system would render an inmate incapable of screaming about the 'extreme pain in the form of a severe burning sensation' caused by... potassium chloride."


 * In his book about “America’s Capital Punishment Industry”, Stephen Trombley confirms that Leuchter is, in fact,11
 * “America’s first and foremost supplier of execution hardware. His products include electric chairs, gas chambers, gallows, and lethal injection machines. He offers design, construction, installation, staff training and maintenance.” (Stephen Trombley, op. cit. (note 6), p. 8.)"

I've read Trombley's book, he also says quite a number of negative things about Leuchter and his credibility which I guess your source the Rudolf Report overlooks. AndyL 22:58, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You might do well to read the article False Prophets, fake skeptics: Holocaust denial in our time AndyL 22:58, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)