由于毒品短缺,俄亥俄州寻求采用氮缺氧处决,停止2018年以来的所有处决。 Ohio seeks to adopt nitrogen hypoxia for executions due to drug shortages halting all executions since 2018.

俄亥俄州总检察长Dave Yost敦促州立法机构通过众议院第36号法案, 该法案将授权使用惰性气体处决氮缺氧(一种使用惰性气体的处决方法), 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. 他说,俄亥俄州自2018年以来没有执行处决的药物,是因为俄亥俄州七年来没有执行任何处决,导致56项死刑判决未执行。 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. Yost强调,必须维持陪审团的裁决,并关闭受害者家属,指出9个州允许使用致命气体,5个州,包括阿拉巴马州,采用了氮缺氧,阿拉巴马州于2024年首次执行此类处决。 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.