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A German reporter views the gas chamber where inmates condemned to death are executed inside the “Death House” at the main prison complex in Florence, some 80 miles southeast of Phoenix.
In a push to restart its execution program, the state of Arizona is dusting off its gas chamber and stocking up on hydrogen cyanide gas, a compound better known by the name the Nazis called it when they used it at Auschwitz Zyklon B.
According to documents found by the UK-based Guardian, the state bought a $1,350 brick of potassium-cyanide necessary to create the gas in December and refurbished the gas chamber which was built in 1949 and has been out of use for the past 22 years.
Arizona pretende executar presos com o mesmo gás usado pelos nazis
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Todesstrafe in den USA: Arizona will Häftlinge mit Zyklon B vergasen
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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