Fred Leuchter on Prime Time Live 1990
By Fred A. Leuchter ∙ April 14, 2021
Fred Leuchter on Prime Time Live, NBC News, 1990. In this 12 minute video, Fred Leuchter, an execution expert discusses the execution in a Florida prison, by the electric chair of Jesse Tafero who had murdered two policemen. The execution was mishandled by the authorities who used the wrong type of sponge.
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Until the late 1980’s, Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (born Feb. 7, 1943), was the foremost expert on the design, construction and maintenance of hardware, including homicidal gas chambers, used to execute convicted criminals in the United States. After receiving a Bachelor's degree (in history) from Boston University in 1964, Leuchter did postgraduate work at the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Leuchter is perhaps best known as the author of four controversial forensic reports on alleged German wartime extermination gas chambers. Leuchter designed and maintained gas chambers for several U.S. penal institutions. He was sent by Ernst Zündel to investigate Auschwitz, Majdanek, Dachau, Hartheim and other alleged "Nazi Death Camps" and "gassing facilities." Author of the devastating, trail-blazing series of Leuchter Reports (I, II, III, IV) and several articles and videotaped presentations that resulted from these investigations. Sensational Zündel witness in the Great Holocaust Trial in 1988.
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