Arizona planning to use Nazi-era gas for death row executions: Report – By Ivan Pereira (ABC News) / June 2 2021
The last gas chamber execution was in 1999 — in Arizona.
Arizona intends to resume executing death row inmates in gas chambers with Nazi-era chemicals, according to a report.
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry has spent thousands of dollars “refurbishing” gas chambers for executions, according to a report in The Guardian, which obtained government documents through public records requests.
Among the purchases, the documents showed, was $2,000 to buy the ingredients to make hydrogen cyanide — a gas used by Nazis at Auschwitz.
ABC News has not independently verified the contents of said documents. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry didn’t respond to several requests for comment from ABC News.
