State Sen Nickie Antonio opposes Attorney General Dave Yost's proposed new method of of death penalty executions in Ohio. and calls it grandstanding and barbaric....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie J. Antonio (D-Lakewood) COLUMBUS – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Nickie J. Antonio (D-Lakewood), who's district includes 14 of Cleveland's 17 wards, responded to Attorney General Dave Yost and House Republicans' push to introduce a new, unproven method of executions in Ohio fueled by nitrogen gas. "There is no humane form of execution in 2024," said Antonio in a statement . "It is unfortunate that anyone would rush to the nearest camera to plead for the introduction of experimental methods to resume the barbaric practice. The state of Alabama has resurrected its death penalty procedures using nitrogen gas, a method so unconscionable that veterinarians reject its use to euthanize animals. Ohio should show moral leadership and reject the death penalty outright rather than fall in line with this misguided policy." Nitrogen hypoxia is an execution method in which death is caused by forcing an inmate to breathe onl