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The Arizona Department of Corrections justified the use of hydrogen cyanide, substance used by the Nazis to murder Jews in Auschwitz , to execute the prisoners in the corridor of death.
The “HCN” gas is highly poisonous and causes death in people.
Zyklon B, a powerful insecticide, is the carrier of hydrogen cyanide.
On average, about 6, 000 Jews were killed daily with Zyklon B at the Auschwitz II center, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
However, for the Department of Corrections, it is a procedure legal procedure that will be used to resume executions almost seven years since the last reported in the 2014.
“According to Arizona law, a defendant who is sentenced to death for an offense committed before 23 November 1992 must choose either lethal injection or lethal gas at least 20 days before the execution date . If the defendant does not choose either lethal injection or lethal gas, the death sentence must be lethal injection, ”the Department said in a press release cited by CBS.
The Death Penalty Information Center specified that there is 902 people on Arizona death row and the state has executed 37 from the 1976 when the Supreme Court reinstated that punishment.
Arizona has not completed an execution since 2014 since the death by lethal injection of Joseph Wood, a two-hour process, the longest known.
Ingredients ordered by agency to prepare the HCN for what you invested $ 2, 000, according to documents obtained by Th e Guardian.
The first gas chamber for this purpose was built in the 1920 in the aforementioned state.
Currently, the The agency is overhauling a gas chamber built in the 1976 and used by 22 years to carry out the new executions.
In March, the department announced that it would implement a new execution protocol with barbiturate pentobarbital, according to the Center. But, the entity was unable to obtain supplies of the lethal injectable drug.
Last month, The Guardian reported that, based on documents obtained, the Department spent $ 1.5 million for such purchase from an unspecified source.
