An inmate has not been put to death in Ohio since. Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., said the trend will likely continue. “Ohio was ...

While it remains unlikely executions will resume in Ohio with Gov. Mike DeWine in office, the death penalty has received new attention following Tuesday's execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri.

Since then, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has suspended all executions in a continuing struggle for the state to find a painless way to kill death row inmates. With drug suppliers refusing to allow ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — President Donald Trump wants to “restore the death penalty” through an executive order he signed ...

No one ends up on Ohio’s death row by getting lucky. The road there is paved with bad decisions, terrible crimes, determined prosecutors and juries that reject pleas for mercy. Raymond ...

A bipartisan group of state senators is sponsoring a bill to repeal Ohio’s death penalty law. The General Assembly should approve it and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine should sign the repeal.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — President Donald Trump wants to “restore the death penalty” through an executive order he signed ...

Forty years ago, several of us supported the crafting of Ohio’s death penalty law, believing it would be a fair and just system. Seeing it in operation has convinced us it is not. We urge the ...

Derrick Jamison served 20 years on Ohio’s death row for a crime he did not commit. He lived in a one-man cell, his meal trays slid through a slot in the door. He said goodbye to 18 fellow inmates who ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A convicted killer who fatally shot a man nearly 40 years ago has been removed from Ohio's death row under a new law that prohibits the execution of people who had severe mental ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) -The Ohio Legislature is currently considering two new death penalty bills. One of those bills would allow executions to resume, the other would abolish them. The first bill ...