Arizona Prepares to Use Auschwitz Gas Zyklon B on Death Row Inmates
On 6/1/21 at 6:52 AM EDT
According to documents obtained by the U.K. newspaper
The Guardian, Arizona s Department of Corrections has spent more than $2,000 on ingredients to make hydrogen cyanide, the same gas used at the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
The heavily redacted documents, which the newspaper has made available online, show that Arizona spent $1,530 in December, 2020 on a solid brick of potassium cyanide. The state also bought sodium hydroxide pellets and sulfuric acid necessary to generate the gas.
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