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Pena di morte, sedia elettrica, iniezione letale, revisionisti, olocausto, lager Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., is the foremost expert on the design and fabrication 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. He holds patents on the design of sextants, surveying instruments and optical encoding equipment. He is an accomplished pianist and an NRA-qualified small-arms instructor. Leuchter is perhaps best known as the author of two controversial forensic reports on alleged German wartime extermination gas chambers. An eccentric loner who drinks 40 cups of coffee and smokes six packs of cigarettes a day, Fred Leuchter made a career designing and repairing execution devices for prisons. Convinced that most execution devices were inhumane and robbed the convicted of their dignity, Leuchter developed an electric chair and lethal-injection system that minimized pain before death. In 1988, Leuchter’s life changed when he accepted an offer from Canadian neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel to travel to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. His assignment: to ``prove,`’ by analyzing brick and mortar samples that he stole from the site of the gas chambers, that the Holocaust never took place.