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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Ohio since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. [1] All of the following people have been executed for murder since the Gregg v. Georgia decision. All 56 were executed by lethal injection. [2]
Search our filterable table to view the execution schedule from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections.
Female death row incarcerated persons are housed at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. Executions take place at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. You can find death row statistics in our Monthly Fact Sheets on our Reports page.
As of February 2021, there have been 393 executions in Ohio's history. Before 1885, executions were carried out by hanging in the county where the crime was committed.
Nationally, the number of executions carried out dropped by 82 percent between 1999 and 2022, according to the Washington, D.C.- based Death Penalty Information Center, while death sentences declined 92 percent during the same time period. Ohio had no death sentences last year or in 2021, and just one in 2020.
This is a complete list of all inmates executed in Ohio since the reinstatement of the Death Penalty in 1976.
2014 - Ohio botches the execution of Dennis McGuire by lethal injection. The state used an untried drug cocktail composed of the sedative midazolam and the painkiller hydromorphone. 2015 - The FDA warms Ohio not to import sodium thiopental from overseas for use in executions.
For five and a half years, The Next to Die tracked every execution scheduled in the country, starting in 2015. This is what we learned. Although we are no longer updating these pages, you can read our continuing coverage of capital punishment in our new series Death Sentences.