Execution by nitrogen hypoxia doesn't seem headed for widespread adoption as bills fall short and nitrogen producers object

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The day after Alabama carried out the first-known US execution using nitrogen gas, its attorney general sent a clear message to death penalty states that might want to follow suit: "Alabama has done it, and now so can you.
51% : Still, Muscarello anticipated most executions would be carried out using lethal injection, he said.
49% : Republican state Reps. Phil Plummer and Brian Stewart proposed HB 392 with the support of the state's GOP attorney general, who said nitrogen hypoxia could bring "closure" to victims after years of the state struggling to obtain the drugs necessary for lethal injections, leading to an effective moratorium on Ohio's death penalty.
44% : "We're not seeing a lot of states jumping on board," said Robert Dunham, director of the Death Penalty Policy Project at Phillips Black, a nonprofit law firm that specializes in post-conviction legal representation, describing the bills so far as "a reflexive reaction by some legislators in some states who are desperate to find alternatives to lethal injection.
44% : "Meantime, several manufacturers of nitrogen gas have said they oppose their products being used for executions, echoing the kind of bans many pharmaceutical companies have instituted for their drugs in lethal injections - thus prompting states to seek an alternative.
42% : To head off this complication, the bills proposing nitrogen hypoxia and the like also aim to implement or expand protections shielding those involved with executions from being publicly identified.Taken together, the middling legislative efforts, vocal resistance of some gas producers and declining public support for capital punishment signal nitrogen executions may not be widely embraced among US death penalty states - at least for now.
37% : "While not an exhaustive survey of nitrogen producers, opposition by these companies echoes that of pharmaceutical drugmakers who prohibited their products from being used in lethal injections.
22% : Sarat linked companies' objection - whether they produce nitrogen or drugs - to the current "period of national reconsideration of capital punishment," including not just declines in the numbers of executions and death sentences but also in public support for the death penalty.

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