Arizona Jewish community leaders sue state over potential use of cyanide gas in executions
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Jewish community leaders in Phoenix, Arizona, filed a lawsuit against the state to prevent the use of hydrogen cyanide in executions, the same gas that was used to kill Jews during the Holocaust.
Frank Atwood is on death row in Arizona for murdering an 8-year-old girl in 1984. (Arizona Attorney General) Clarence Dixon raped and murdered a 21-year-old Arizona woman in 1978. (Arizona Attorney General)
"It is appalling that Arizona has chosen to use the very same chemical compound that was used by the Nazis in Auschwitz to murder more than one million people."
The Arizona Department of Corrections refurbished its gas chamber and bought ingredients to create cyanide gas in December 2020, according to records obtained by the Guardian.
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