Defense attorneys seek reprieve for Butler County man convicted of killing his family
The death penalty has been on hold in Ohio since 2020 on the order of Gov. Mike DeWine
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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.