Gee Jon
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朱家休 | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Zhū Jiāxiū |
Yue: Cantonese | |
Jyutping | zyu1 gaa1 jau1 |
Gee Jon (
Background
Gee Jon was born around 1895 in
Murder of Tom Quong Kee
Gee Jon was ordered by Hop Sing officials to perform a gang hit on 74-year-old
On the night of August 27, 1921, Gee and Sing knocked on the door of Tom's cabin, the former armed with a .38 caliber revolver. When Tom answered the door in his pajamas, Gee, who was standing behind Sing, killed the elderly man with two shots to the heart. Tom's body was discovered the next morning by one of his friends, reporting his find to justice of the peace L. E. Cornelius, who in turn alerted Hammill. After finding two sets of footprints at the crime scene, Hammill made a possible link to the presence of two strangers he had seen the week before. Gee and Sing were apprehended the same day in Reno after Hammill phoned chief of police John Kirkley about two possible murder suspects driving back from Mina. Their arrests were considered unusual, as other Tong killings typically went unsolved, with at least three additional murders with suspected Tong involvement being reported by the end of August. During interrogation, Sing confessed to his role in the murder and implicated Gee as the one to fire the killings shots, under the belief that this would lead to his immediate release from custody.[5][10][13]
Trial and sentencing
Gee and Sing were defended by attorneys James M. Frame and
Death
Preparation
The California Cyanide Company of
Execution
Gee Jon was executed in the morning hours of February 8, 1924. Gee, who had
Just after the execution, one of the physicians who examined Gee's body, Dr. Delos A. Turner, a
Reaction
The
Warden Dickerson reported to Nevada governor James G. Scrugham and the legislature his opinion that the use of lethal gas was impractical and that he thought execution by firing squad was still the best method of execution.[7]
See also
- Capital punishment in Nevada
- Capital punishment in the United States
- List of people executed in Nevada
References
- ^ Chan, Loren B. (1975). "Example For The Nation: Nevada's Execution of Gee Jon" (PDF). Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. p. 25.
- ^ https://epubs.nsla.nv.gov/statepubs/epubs/210777-1976-1Spring.pdf
- ^ https://epubs.nsla.nv.gov/statepubs/epubs/210777-1976-1Spring.pdf
- ^ Chan, Loren B. (1975). "Example For The Nation: Nevada's Execution of Gee Jon" (PDF). Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. p. 25.
- ^ a b c d e Chan, Loren B. (1975). "Example For The Nation: Nevada's Execution of Gee Jon" (PDF). Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. p. 90-106 (p. 25-33 on PDF).
- ^ a b "Nevada State Prison Inmate Case Files: Gee Jon". Nevada State Library and Archives. July 11, 2003. Archived from the original on May 27, 2008. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ ISBN 978-0874175677. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ a b "Descriptions of Execution Methods: Gas Chamber". Death Penalty Information Center. 2010. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ISBN 978-0874175677. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ ISBN 978-0295801186. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ https://epubs.nsla.nv.gov/statepubs/epubs/210777-1976-1Spring.pdf
- ^ Chew, Ng Poon (February 8, 1924). "朱家休被执行死刑". Chung Sai Yat Po.
- ISBN 9780520255623. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
Gee Jon.
- ^ a b c Chan, Loren (Summer 1975). "Example for the Nation: Nevada's Execution of Gee Jon". Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. 18 (2): 90–106. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
- ^ ISBN 978-0275997809. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ISBN 978-0786409440. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ ISBN 978-0761925149. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ ISBN 978-0313385520. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ISBN 978-0313299421. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ISBN 978-0674020511. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
Further reading
- Bohm, Robert M. (1999). Deathquest: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States. OCLC 40480924.
External links
- 1924: Gee Jon, debuting the gas chamber at ExecutedToday.com
- State of Nevada v. Gee Jon, 211 pp. 676–1923
- Gee Jon's chair at themobmuseum.org