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lethal gas from an external storage cylinder (Cerneviciute 2014). The first execution was carried on July 27, 1937: Bronius Poguzinskas, age 37, convicted of murder of five people from a Jewish family. Historian Sigita Cerneviciute counted at least nine executions in the gas chamber, though records are incomplete and fragmentary. Of the nine, eight were convicted of murder. One of these, Aleksandras Maurusaitis, was also convicted of anti-government actions during the 1935 Suvalkija strike. The last

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