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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Execute them the same way they murdered their victims.
And to satisfy the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution as well which prohibits cruel and unusual punishments.
Well the insides of the place will be a pretty blue color.
Helium asphyxiation makes for much funnier last words.
Just make up a pack of very strong Fentanyl patches.
Peel the back off of one and stick it on the restrained criminal monster.
Maybe two patches, just to make certain...
If a man is standing in front of a judge in a Chinese court it's too late to try to avoid terror in that man's mind.
Will it be hooked to a solar panel or a windmill?
I chuckled in my imagination seeing him struggling with the electrodes putting out about 200 volts with about 1 or 2 amps. It might take an hour or more to finally cook him. I suppose you could squirt him with a water hose to draw more amps.
“It’s beyond me why we’re not using firing squads. Seems the most efficient form of death penalty.”
But Nazis used bullets.
Nazis ate food too. Anyone who eats food is a Nazi.
“Send him to old sparky!”
But Nazis used electricity.
“VERY misleading headline and body of the story. They are substituting a trade-name that’s dripping with controversy for standard chemical compounds.”
Yes. It’s ludicous and they do it purposely.
The more the better imo.......
Suicide is painless.........
CN stops Ox Phos in the mitochondria.
We really should have never given up good old fashioned hanging. Bring back the noose.
What made the Nazis evil is not that they used Zyclon B. It was who they used it on and how they deviously used it. We used to have a gas chamber to execute convicted murderers. That does not make the gas chamber evil. If the Nazi victims were shot en masse by firing squads does that mean we ban bullets for all time?
Nitrogen
I have worked in some refineries where some workers died of asphyxiation. An example is where a confined space is flooded with nitrogen. A worker just opened the hatch, did not do a job hazard analysis, no hole watch, and just climbs in. He never knew what hit him. He passed out, died of anoxia. Someone else impulsively climb in to rescue him, and he went down.
With nitrogen, unlike hydrogen cyanide or carbon monoxide, has no discomfort. It just shuts the body down.
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