Ohio may follow Alabama in nitrogen gas executions: Inmates are 'dying of old age,' AG says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Ohio currently has 118 inmates on death row.
39% : That, he said, would endanger the ability of thousands of Ohioans - including Medicaid recipients, state troopers and prison inmates - to get drugs through state programs.
37% : "Perhaps nitrogen -- widely available and easy to manufacture -- can break the impasse of unavailability of drugs for lethal injection," Yost, a Columbus Republican, posted on X. "Death row inmates are in greater danger of dying of old age than their sentence.
25% : DeWine said he would only allow executions to go forward if state lawmakers pass legislation authorizing an alternative to lethal injection.

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