The state has purchased materials to make hydrogen cyanide gas, which was used in some past U.S. executions and which the Nazis used to kill 865,000 Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp alone.
Arizona s secret refurbishment of the gas chamber for use on death row inmates drew backlash from the American Jewish Committee, likening it to the Holocaust.
Arizona secretly refurbishes its GAS CHAMBER for death row inmates and will execute them with same pesticide Nazis used to kill 865,000 Jews at Auschwitz
Records show the state began quietly restoring the chamber in the state prison in Florence, southeast of Phoenix, last year
Officials also bought up materials needed to manufacture hydrogen cyanide gas
That is the same pesticide the Nazis used to murder more than 865,000 Jews at Auschwitz, sparking fury from anti-capital punishment campaigners
No one has been executed by gas chamber in Arizona - or nationwide - in more than two decades when killer Walter LaGrand was put to death in 1999
Arizona prepares to execute death row inmates with Zyklon B - the same deadly gas used by the Nazis at Auschwitz - seven years after the state s last execution by lethal injection was branded torture
Arizona is preparing to resume executions by gas poisoning seven years after it botched the killing of death row inmate Joseph Wood in 2014
It purchased $2000 worth of ingredients for hydrogen cyanide, also known as Zyklon B, used by the Nazis to murder over one million Jewish people in WWII
In recent years, the state has aggressively sought new ways to execute its 115 death row inmates, including the use of experimental drugs