FRED LEUCHTER: FROM CAMERAS TO SEXTANTS TO EXECUTIONS

Leuchter designed cameras for the miliary in 1965. 20 years later he designed sexants to allow navigators in the airplanes to hit their targets. In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that executions were not cruel and unusual punishment bu the field of executions was obsolete with old equipment and no trained technicians. Leuchter was known to the wardens as a whiz kid whose father had been a prison guard so they called him up for help to revamp the execution system. He became the top expert in the field. Now he is making a name for himself on the internet to promote his philosophy of humane executions until the world abolishes the death penalty and the use of torture as part of the state craft.