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Ohio Republicans are pitching nitrogen gas as new death penalty method for the state. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is standing behind a new legislative that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, ending a yearslong unofficial death penalty moratorium.
Ohio Republicans are pitching nitrogen gas as new death penalty method for the state. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is standing behind a new legislative that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, ending a yearslong unofficial death penalty moratorium.
Alabama plans to experiment with nitrogen hypoxia, a previously untried method of execution, when it puts Kenneth Smith to death on Jan. 25.
Lawyers for six death row inmates out of appeals in South Carolina are asking the state Supreme Court to give full consideration to the state's new lethal injection rules as well as the electric chair and firing squad before restarting executions after an unintended 12-year pause.
Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add the state to the list of those authorising firing squads. Fresh interest comes as states scramble for alternatives to lethal injections after pharmaceuticals barred the use of their drugs