Ohio could begin nitrogen gas executions under bill backed by state's Republican 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% : "Perhaps nitrogen -- widely available and easy to manufacture -- can break the impasse of unavailability of drugs for lethal injection," Yost wrote on X on Friday, the day after Alabama executed Smith.
42% : The state has since faced challenges finding the chemicals for lethal injection.
31% : "Stewart, Plummer and the executive director of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Lou Tobin, joined Yost at his news conference Tuesday.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.
26% : In 2020, Republican Gov. 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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