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DEATH MACHINE INSTALLATION

A short film about capital punishment featuring Fred Arthur Leuchter Jr. an American manufacturer of execution equipment. Galleri Forum Malmö 1996. Video by Johan Söderberg and Erik Pauser /A Lucky People Center project.

Fred Arthur Leuchter Jr. was contracted by authorities of several U.S. states to improve the designs of instruments for capital punishment. He was charged in Massachusetts with misrepresenting himself to penitentiaries as an engineer, despite having no relevant qualifications. He plea bargained with state prosecutors and received two years' probation. He has also been accused of running a "death row shakedown", where he threatened to testify for the defense in capital cases if he was not given contracts for his services by that state.

"Death Machine" is a part of the 1996 Swedish television film 'Electronic Pollution,' which is a 30-minute film directed and produced by Erik Pauser, Johan Söderberg, and Fridjon Rafnsson. The production company is Brandklipparen."

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