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flag Ohio seeks to adopt nitrogen hypoxia for executions due to drug shortages halting all executions since 2018.

flag Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost urged the state legislature to pass House Bill 36, which would authorize nitrogen hypoxia—a method of execution using inert gas—as an alternative to lethal injection, the state’s only current method. flag He cited the unavailability of execution drugs since 2018 as the reason Ohio has not carried out any executions in seven years, leaving 56 death sentences unfulfilled. flag Yost emphasized the need to uphold jury verdicts and provide closure for victims’ families, noting that nine states allow lethal gas and five, including Alabama, have adopted nitrogen hypoxia, with Alabama conducting the first such execution in 2024.

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