Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Arizona wants to use Nazi death camp gas hydrogen cyanide to execute death row inmates

Known to its best customer as Zyklon B, IG Farben's pelletized hydrogen cyanide was used to execute more than a million death camp prisoners by the Nazis. The state of Arizona, in need of an effective method to execute death row inmates now that lethal injection is out of commission, knows a tried-and-tested solution when it sees one. — Read the rest