NOURNEWS - Arizona in the United States has purchased the materials needed to make deadly gas, used in Nazi killing camps, according to a report in Newsweek.
Newsweek stressed; The obvious intention of the state authorities of this action is to use the mentioned gas to execute the prisoners who are in the execution queue!
The Arizona Department of Corrections and Prisons has spent more than $ 2,000 on materials to produce "hydrogen cyanide," the Guardian reported, citing documents obtained.
This is the same gas used during the Nazi rule in the dreaded Auschwitz-Birkenau camp to execute detainees.
Documents posted by the Guardian on its website also show that the state of Arizona spent $ 1,530 on "potassium cyanide" in December 2020.
The state has also purchased the "sodium hydroxide" and "sulfuric acid" particulate matter needed to produce the toxic gas.
A series of reports indicate that the state gas chamber in the "Florence Arizona State Prison Complex" has been renovated and is ready to be used for the execution of prisoners.
This type of execution in the Republican-controlled state of Arizona was stopped seven years ago, but apparently is set to resume.
The reason for the seven-year suspension was the failed execution of Joseph Wood in 2014, who was injected with poison and took two hours to die. At the same time, the media reported that the amount of toxins injected into him was enough to execute 15 people according to state regulations!
Documents in a US museum show that hydrogen cyanide was produced under Nazi Germany under the brand name "Cyclone B" and was used in the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Maidank camps, as well as some other camps.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Center, the largest slaughterhouse, had four large gas chambers in which cyclone B (hydrogen cyanide crystal) was used as a lethal agent, according to the American Museum's website.
Both carbon monoxide and cyclone were used in the Maidanak gas chamber.
The last person to be executed in a gas chamber in Arizona was German Walter Lagrand. This event took place in 1999. His death lasted 18 minutes, and eyewitness accounts published in Tucson Citizen described his death as painful suffocation.
A total of 115 inmates are on death row in Arizona, and the state appears willing to resume executions this way. A number of states have in some cases resorted to untested combinations of toxic and lethal drugs.
BY: Mohammad Ghaderi
NOURNEWS