Since the death penalty wasintroduced to the US in 1608 , various methods have evolve in an attempt to enact the sentence in the most " humanist " way possible . Hanging , elicit squads , and the electric chair all made appearances throughout history , but deadly injection quickly became the only stay on method in most state with capital punishment .
However , as pharmaceutic companies became reluctant to sell lethal doses of drug for the death penalisation and anesthetic supplying dwindled , some states have turned to more Graeco-Roman forms of punishment . On May 14 this year , governors in South Carolina turn to any agency necessary to carry out the deadly blow , signing a billthat enabled prosecuting officer to practice ignition team and burning to kill the culprit where the deadly injection is not possible .
One state of matter , though , is accept a different approaching .
fit in topublic documentsobtained by an probe byThe Guardian , the country of Arizona may be preparing to bring back H cyanide within gaseous state chambers as a form of great punishment . Hydrogen nitrile , sold by the steel name Zyklon B , was used extensively by the Nazi company during the Holocaust and was utilized in gas chambers as deadly penalization during the 1900s , but has not been used by Arizona statesince 1999 .
Despite its ’ want of purpose , the new documents show a $ 2,000 defrayment by the Arizona department of corrections to purchase ingredient to make cyanide gas , as well as drive to refurbish their honest-to-god gas chambers at ASPC - Florence . During August , a number of tests were conducted to assess their operability , and it is thought the land may begin to reintroduce the method if trial are successful . As the Guardian points out , the tests impart to ensure the bedchamber was airtight included some pretty archaic methods , such as holding a candle to possible leaking areas to see if the flaming flickered .
The papers put forward that the gas sleeping accommodation operate on by combining potassium cyanide and sulfuric window pane , creating hydrogen cyanide that is then contained within the chamber . It is by no means a peaceful way to die , with the last case of gas chamber capital punishment in Arizona taking18 minutesfor Walter LaGrand to die .
The Book of Revelation comes after attitudes have shifted away from deadly injectant , which caused an call in 2014 when inmateJoseph Woodsuffered an agonizing death at the hand of executioners . After using a raw cocktail of lethal drugs , Wood required 15 times the recommend amount before succumbing to the shot , and the whole trial by ordeal lasted almost 2 hr . Since then , Arizona has looked for alternative methods , but resist to stray by from capital punishment .
There are currently115 inmateson Death Row in Arizona , awaiting their sentence . Drug shortages have result in a backlog of executions , which the state is eager to restart . There has been no prescribed statement on the potential consumption of gas chamber yet , so it is unknown whether the examination was hypothetical , or whether the state intends to go forward with the plan .
