Posted on 06/03/2021 8:25:01 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Arizona is taking steps to use hydrogen cyanide, the deadly gas used during the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis at Auschwitz and other extermination camps, to kill inmates on death row.
Corrections officials have refurbished a gas chamber that hasn’t been used in more than 20 years and have procured ingredients for the lethal gas, also known as Zyklon B, according to partially redacted documents obtained by the Guardian. Invoices show that the state purchased a brick of potassium cyanide, sodium hydroxide pellets and sulfuric acid, and a report details the considerable efforts taken to deem the gas chamber at a prison in Florence, Ariz., “operationally ready.”
Critics of the gas method say that in addition to hydrogen cyanide’s infamous use in the mass killings of Jewish people by the Nazis, it has produced some of the most botched, disturbing executions in the United States.
“You have to wonder what Arizona was thinking in believing that in 2021 it is acceptable to execute people in a gas chamber with cyanide gas,” Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told the British outlet. “Did they have anybody study the history of the Holocaust?”
In a statement, the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry said it was “prepared to perform its legal obligation and commence the execution process as part of the legally imposed sentence, regardless of method selected.” The department pointed to the Arizona statute allowing a defendant sentenced to death for a crime committed before Nov. 23, 1992, to choose between lethal injection or lethal gas at least 20 days before the execution date.
There is little medical research about lethal gas’s effects on the human body, but executions using gas have taken much longer than other methods, according to Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno.
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If you’re going to execute, find a better way! Nitrogen is infinitely better than poison gas. Shooting always works.
I don’t trust any government in any jurisdiction to send people to death row fairly. There are too many prosecutions of innocent people so as to boost the career of the prosecutor. I don’t trust the legal “Justice” system, the prosecutors, the judges.
Wasted ammo? Use rope. Rope can be used and re-used,
even re-used again. Ammo, once used is gone and not around for when it is REALLY needed.
It’s beyond me why we’re not using firing squads.
The “kill babies and protect criminals” groups have been blocking the use of chemicals used for the death penalty, either through court actions or by targeting manufacturers. States that have the death penalty need to constantly come up with different methods.
That’s my choice as well. It’s the easiest, least messy choice.
If fentanyl is so deadly, why don’t they just use some of the confiscated stock?
Nitrogen gas asphyxiation is the cheapest, most effective quickest, most “humane” way to kill any mammel.
Did they use the old Buick and the garden hose?
Hanging, firing squad, Ol’ Sparky or pure nitrogen. Me no care so...
Pick one, ask for the Lord to forgive your sins, and then you’re on the highway to heaven...maybe.
5.56mm
One of the few things the French got right.
Yes. Hydrogen cyanide is what is used in every “gas chamber” execution device.
“Why not pure nitrogen, they just go to sleep and never wake up. Odorless, colorless, they wouldn’t even know,just fall asleep and die.”
You’re correct. Your body only monitors CO2 concentration, not nitrogen or even oxygen.
They would just go to sleep and never wake up.
Bet those death row inmates are super grateful that the communist lawyers found a way to make lethal injection drugs hard to find. Now instead of dozing off, you get the terror or being wide awake and breathing cyanide gas.
Actually pure nitrogen is much more expensive than CO. With CO you can just hook a garden hose to an old V8 engine. You don’t even need an air tight chamber. You can use an old car and just roll up the windows.
So, because it was used in Nazi Germany, no one else can use it? Nazi Germany used 9 mm handgun ammo, so no one can use it now? While I sympathize with the families of the millions killed in this way, it is the National Socialist doctrine and it’s followers, not HCN that was guilty for killing defenselessness Jews. This same Socialist doctrine is rearing it’s nasty head today. Liberal Logic will end up killing millions. Christians and Conservatives are the new people that are being attacked. Just wait five years if you doubt it.
The effects of HCN on animals is well understood. HCN binds to hemoglobin better than O2, and replaces it. Death occurs by cellular suffocation.
Nitrogen is fast and painless. Not sure why more states aren’t using it.
I don’t care how we kill murderers. Start with their fingernails and move up for all I care. The reason to use humane methods is to silence critics of capital punishment. And that deserves some consideration.
Gotta use what you’ve got!:)
As I understand it, gas chambers always used hydrogen cyanide and nobody ever referred to it as Zykon B. This smells like anti-death penalty propaganda to me.
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