US EditionNational campaign to end death penalty launches as Ohio lawmakers consider new execution method
More than 50 organizations oppose capital punishment amid falling public support and increasing jury reluctance, with lethal injection shortages prompting Ohio to consider nitrogen hypoxia.
- On Dec. 3, 2025, the U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty launched by a coalition of more than 50 organizations, with Laura Porter framing it as a coordinated national strategy.
- Porter cited Gallup poll showing death penalty support at 52%, a 50-year low, while fewer than 30 new death sentences are expected this year amid declining jury use.
- Bringing faith communities together, the coalition combines faith-based, civil-rights and conservative groups, reaching Evangelicals, Catholics, Black and Indigenous leaders, with speakers Sister Helen Prejean and Demetrius Minor.
- Ohio lawmakers are debating a bill to allow executions by nitrogen hypoxia, now before the Ohio House Judiciary Committee, while Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost urges approval and welcomes federal help after President Donald Trump directed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to assist states.
- Eleven exonerations in Ohio highlight wrongful-conviction risks, while the American Veterinary Association allows nitrogen hypoxia for pigs but critics say it causes prolonged suffering.
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WASHINGTON — Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences and waning public support for the practice during comments at a Dec. 3 press event announcing a new coalition called the U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty. Laura Porter, the campaign’s director, said in a statement that the new coalition comes at “a critical juncture in our country’s history with the deat…
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