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A new lawsuit is challenging Arizona leaders as they prepare to execute death row inmates with the same gas that killed more than one million Jewish people in Auschwitz.

Members of the Arizona Jewish community have filed suit to bar the state from executing prisoners in its gas chamber, using the same substance employed by…

Jewish community leaders in Phoenix, Arizona, filed a lawsuit against the state to prevent the use of hydrogen cyanide in executions, the same gas that was used to kill Jews during the Holocaust.

During the Holocaust, the Nazis used pellets of Zyklon B in the gas chambers at Auschwitz and other death camps.

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix (JCRC) and two local Jewish community members are suing the state of Arizona in hopes of preventing capital punishment by hydrogen cyanide,

Using the gas in executions is "tantamount to approving of what the Nazis did," one Jewish leader said.

Outlawed by the state in 1992, the toxic gas employed by the Nazis at Auschwitz can still be used on those sentenced before the ban; Jewish leaders call it 'cruel and barbarous'

Paul Rockower, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix, was caught by surprise at Tuesday’s annual meeting of the Arizona Faith Network, “Hope, Healing and Humanity.”

Tim Eckstein is set to become the board chair for the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix. He takes the place of Adam Goodman, who will remain on the 2021-2022 executive committee. Goodman is joined on the committee by Rabbi Bonnie Sharfman as vice-chair, Vicki Cabot as treasurer and Alan Zeichick as secretary. “I am extremely excited for the opportunity to help guide the JCRC,” Eckstein said, via email. “Under the stellar leadership of Adam Goodman, Paul Rockow...