Arizona plans executions using same poison gas used in Nazi death camps
Phoenix, June 1 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Arizona, prison officials have revived a decades-old gas chamber and are planning to use hydrogen cyanide -- the same deadly gas used by Nazis at Auschwitz and other extermination camps -- to kill people on death row.
According to documents obtained by The Guardian, Arizona’s Department of Corrections spent over $2,000 buying ingredients for the gas. The department has also “refurbished” a gas chamber at a prison in the town of Florence that was built in 1949 and hadn’t been used in over two decades.
