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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio's 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 Alabama's first use of the method last week.
Van Wert, Ohio breaking news and local information from the Van Wert Independent.
Ohio politicians are considering whether the state should end its unofficial moratorium on the death penalty by following Alabama in using nitrogen gas to execute inmates.
Yost is woefully misguided in pushing Ohio to follow suit with Alabama by adopting nitrogen hypoxia for capital punishment
Ohio's 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 Alabama's first use of the method last week.