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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.
It would require that the nitrogen hypoxia pioneered in Alabama last week be used in cases where lethal injection drugs are not available.
(NEW YORK) — Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow execution by nitrogen gas, a controversial practice critics call untested and lacking in evidence that it’s more humane than lethal injection, after Alabama became the first state to execute someone with nitrogen gas. […]
It would require that the nitrogen hypoxia pioneered in Alabama last week be used in cases where lethal injection drugs are not available.
It would require that the nitrogen hypoxia pioneered in Alabama last week be used in cases where lethal injection drugs are not available.