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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. The state
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.
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 put his weight behind a legislative effort that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state.
This method was used for the first time in Alabama last week. For at least two minutes, Kenneth Eugene Smith appeared to shake and writhe on the gurney