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The death penalty has been on hold in Ohio since 2020 on the order of Gov. Mike DeWine

Nitrogen gas was used in an execution for the first time last week, and this state's attorney general has made a legal effort to add the new method.

It would require that the nitrogen hypoxia pioneered in Alabama last week be used in cases where lethal injection drugs are not available.

Ohio’s Republican attorney general is backing a legislative effort that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state to end a yearslong unofficial moratorium on the death penalty. The state

Ohio lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday to adopt Alabama's nitrogen gas execution method after it was used Thursday on a condemned inmate.

Three states — Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma — have already authorized nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method, and many more are looking for new ways to execute people.

Ohio’s Republican attorney-general has put his weight behind a legislative effort to bring nitrogen gas executions to the US state, joining what could be a...

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday to bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, joining

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday to bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, j

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohios Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday to bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, joining what could be a national movement in pro-death penalty states to expand capital punishment on the heels of Alabamas first use of the method last week.