Claim: The first lethal gas execution in Nevada, the first state to sanction the use of the gas chamber, was in February 1924.
Evidence: Since the restoration of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, eleven executions by gas chamber have been conducted. Four were conducted in Mississippi, two in Arizona, two in California, two in North Carolina and one in Nevada. Nevada was the first state to sanction the use of the gas chamber. The first execution by use of lethal gas took place in February 1924 and has been used as the means of carrying out the death sentence a total of thirty-one times.