Death row inmate ’s dreadful dilemma : lethal drugs or cyanide used by Nazis Lawyers for Frank Atwood urge him not to choose as method of execution poison gas used to murder millions during Holocaust “agonizing choking and gagging”.“ Cyanide is as bad as everybody thinks it is – there’s a reason the Nazis used it: it’s a horrific way to die,” said Joseph Perkovich of Phillips Black, a member of Atwood ’s legal team. “We are now in the position of having to dissuade our client from opting to go into a cyanide gas chamber , and we have...