Ohio could begin nitrogen gas executions under Bill backed by attorney general

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Ohio has 118 men and one woman on death row, according to the most recent state report.
42% : The state has since faced challenges finding the chemicals for lethal injection.
41% : "Perhaps nitrogen -- widely available and easy to manufacture -- can break the impasse of unavailability of drugs for lethal injection," Mr Yost wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, the day after Alabama executed Smith.
36% : "Ohio's last execution was on July 18, 2018, when Robert Van Hook was put to death by lethal injection for killing a man in 1985.
25% : In 2020, Republican Governor Mike DeWine declared lethal injection "no longer an option", citing a federal judge's ruling that the protocol could cause inmates "severe pain and needless suffering".

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