# Arizona to use Zyklon B to kill prisoners **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 3, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arizona-to-use-zyklon-b-to-kill-prisoners/943561 "2021-06-03T19:11:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 109
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arizona-to-use-zyklon-b-to-kill-prisoners/943561/109 "2021-06-04T22:33:22Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Do you think HCN gas it truly the most humane method Arizona could think of? This question assumes it can be humane (kind, merciful, compassionate) to intentionally kill a person - a debate in and of itself. That being said, @Little_Nemo, here’s what you are looking for, (2011 so you may have forgotten) > [@Florida's modern-day executions are too humane...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floridas-modern-day-executions-are-too-humane/599533): > > …or so says one Florida state legistaor, [who is introducing a bill in January to force death row inmates to choose between electrocution and the firing squad](http://news.yahoo.com/fla-lawmaker-wants-bring-back-firing-squads-110708935.html). He says letting them “go to sleep” with lethal injection allows 'em to “get off [too] easy.” His rationale, which he came to after talking with some dude at a Waffle House earlier this year, is that 90% of people would want to die in their sleep, and why would we want to give a convicted death row criminal something that he wants, right? … ~Max --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arizona-to-use-zyklon-b-to-kill-prisoners/943561)._