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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday th...

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

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 top law enforcer appears ready to open discussions about how to jump start executions that have been on hold in the state for years. Republican Attorney General Dave Yost has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday. On Monday, he posted on the social media platform X, saying that “it’s time to act” regarding the death penalty. Executions have been on hold in Ohio since 2018. In December of 2020, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine declared lethal injection “no longer an option.” Yost slated Tuesday's news conference days after Alabama became the first sta...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, ending a yearslong unofficial death penalty moratorium. Attorney General Dave Yost made remarks in a news conference about a bill sponsored by Republican state Reps. Brian