According to documents obtained by the U.K. newspaper The Guardian, Arizona's Department of Corrections has spent more than $2,000 on ingredients to make hydrogen cyanide, the same gas used at the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Darn that Godwin, you don’t have to initially frame a story with Nazis because killing people in cruel ways is not clickbait enough… And those antifa folks aren’t really anti-fascists, even if the groups they battle are actual Nazis, or are they just ‘neo-Nazis’ since those darn fascists really are a 20th Century thing….
Maybe it would be better calling such executions “capital punishment with a strong pesticide” but the cruelty of the actual deaths is why the practice was stopped in US prisons, much like the mistakes made by hangmen.
Hydrogen cyanide gas was known to some as the product Zyklon B, used to kill over one million people during the holocaust. In US execution, gas has only been a standard practice where allowed and is slightly more efficient than electrocution, whereas lethal injection has been the dominant practice. Commenters so willing to correct the technical means of killing should think about why so many need to be killed in America or the associated judicial inequalities. In one recent case DNA evidence showed that an innocent man was executed.
The state of Arizona has purchased the ingredients necessary to produce a deadly gas used in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust with the apparent intention of deploying it to execute death row inmates.
According to documents obtained by the U.K. newspaper The Guardian, Arizona's Department of Corrections has spent more than $2,000 on ingredients to make hydrogen cyanide, the same gas used at the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
The heavily redacted documents, which the newspaper has made available online, show that Arizona spent $1,530 in December, 2020 on a solid brick of potassium cyanide. The state also bought sodium hydroxide pellets and sulfuric acid necessary to generate the gas.
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Hydrogen cyanide was manufactured in Nazi Germany under the trade name Zyklon B and was used at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek, as well as some other camps, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
"Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the killing centers, has four large gas chambers using Zyklon B (crystalline hydrogen cyanide) as the killing agent," the museum's website says.
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