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In a statement, the Arizona Department of Corrections noted that state law permits death row inmates to choose between dying from lethal injection or gas.
PHOENIX, Ariz.— Arizona bishops are “very concerned” that the state could resume executions this fall – including the possibility of executions by gas chamber.
Documents obtained by The Guardian show that Arizona’s department of corrections spent more than $2,000 on the necessary ingredients to make hydrogen cyanide gas - the same type of gas used in the infamous Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
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As Arizona Prepares to Use Gas Chamber Again, Bishops Decry Death Penalty
PHOENIX, Ariz.— Arizona bishops are “very concerned” that the state could resume executions this fall – including the possibility of executions by gas chamber.
Documents obtained by The Guardian show that Arizona’s department of corrections spent more than $2,000 on the necessary ingredients to make hydrogen cyanide gas - the same type of gas used in the infamous Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Continued below.
As Arizona Prepares to Use Gas Chamber Again, Bishops Decry Death Penalty
