(February 18, 2022 / JNS) The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix and two local Jewish community members are suing the state of Arizona for using hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas used to murder prisoners at Nazi concentration camps, to carry out capital punishment. “We are not arguing the merits of the death penalty, nor the guilt or innocence of the defendants—simply that because of our tragic history, we have a unique lens to declare that the use of Zyklon B is a cruel and barbarous practice whose usage has no place in modern society,” said Paul Rockower, executive...
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