In the State Prison Florence, located in Arizona in the south-west of the United States, sentenced to death, are going to deprive life with the help of “cyclone b”. This deadly gas (crystalline cyanide hydrogen) was used by the Nazis for the mass destruction of people in the gas chambers of the death camps, reports The Guardian.
According to the documents that have fallen at the disposal of the newspaper, the Arizona correctional institution departments spent more than two thousand dollars for the purchase of ingredients for the production of deadly gas. For its application, prison leaders reconstructed the gas chamber, built in 1949 and not used 22 years.
It is noted that in August last year a series of tests were conducted to assess the “performance” of the camera. Seals on the windows and doors checked for tightness, and the drains were cleared of blocks. In tests, water was used instead of cyanide hydrogen, and the gas imitated a lit smoke checker.
The documents say that some methods used to test the tightness of the chamber were very primitive. For example, prison staff checked the presence of gas leaks with a candle. They brought the flames to sealed windows and doors, and looked, whether the flame flashes. In December, the manual announced a chamber “ready to operate.”
According to the publication, the first to whom will be used by the “cyclone b”, 65-year-old Frank Evwood, sentenced to the death penalty for the murder of an eight-year-old Vicky Girl Lynn Hoskinson in 1984, and 65-year-old Clarence Dixon, convicted of murder Students College Dean Boudoine in 1978.
“Cyclone B” was developed in 1922. First, the chemical was used for sanitary processing of clothing and fumigation of ships, warehouses and trains for the destruction of pests. Then the Nazis began to use gas for the mass destruction of people in death camps. Approximately 1.1 million people were killed with the help of “cyclone b”, mainly in Auschwitz.