2.000 BACKGROUND.

The principal investigator and author of this report is an Expert in Execution Technology and a specialist in the design and fabrication of execution hardware of all types. He has worked on, and designed hardware in the United States used in the execution of condemned persons by means of hydrogen cyanide gas. He has written execution protocol which has been approved by the U.S. Courts for execution purposes. He is an approved expert in Execution Technology for the Federal Court System of the United States and has also testified as an expert on Gas Execution Technology and the facilities at Auschwitz and Birkenau, the very same facilities discussed in this evaluation.

2.001 This investigator has personally inspected the facilities at Auschwitz and Birkenau and is a specialist on the facilities there. Furthermore, this investigator conducted the only scientific study of these facilities and authored the only scientific report ever produced on these installations.