The proposed bill would allow for nitrogen gas to be used in executions and make it the latest state to adopt the practice after Alabama put a man to death using it.
Another state could soon join Alabama in using a controversial new execution method. Ohio, where executions have been paused since 2018 due to problems obtaining lethal injection.
The execution of Dennis McGuire on Jan. 16, 2014, was one of the last executions I witnessed as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch. It was a nightmare.