Ohio officials considering ending execution ban by using nitrogen gas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : On Friday, Yost took to X to float the idea of using nitrogen hypoxia in his state, saying: 'Perhaps nitrogen - widely available and easy to manufacture - can break the impasse of unavailability of drugs for lethal injection.
44% : Robert Van Hook was the last inmate to be executed in Ohio in 2018, 33-years after he murdered a man he met in a Cincinnati barOver the almost-six-years since Van Hook's execution, Ohio has faced the same challenge many other states have in obtaining drugs used for lethal injections.
44% : Ohio has 118 men and one woman on death row, according to the most recent state report.
41% : The state hasn't executed an inmate since 2018, with Republican Governor Mike DeWine declaring in 2020 that lethal injections were 'no longer an option', citing a judge's ruling the method can cause 'severe pain and needless suffering.'Despite issues with last week's execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, where the killer writhed and struggled through a 22-minute ordeal, Alabama officials have since pushed the method as an effective technique.
39% : With limited options, Alabama's Attorney General Steve Marshall vowed to continue using nitrogen gas, as he branded Smith's death 'textbook.'Marshall said of the 165 inmates on Alabama's death row, 43 prisoners have opted to be executed via nitrogen hypoxia over lethal injection when their time comes.
38% : Ohio's last execution was on July 18, 2018, when Robert Van Hook was put to death by lethal injection for killing a man he met in a Cincinnati bar in 1985.

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