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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]
Their bodies were found later on April 22. Seven of the victims – six adults and a 16-year-old boy – were discovered to have been shot execution-style in three adjacent houses, while the eighth victim, an adult male, was found shot to death in his camper in nearby Piketon. Three young children, including two infants, were physically unharmed.
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Only 28 people were ever executed by the state of Ohio via hanging before the state switched to the electric chair in 1897. "That the mode of inflicting the punishment of death in all cases under this act, shall be by hanging by the neck, until the person so to be punished shall be dead; & the sheriff, or the coroner in the case of the death, inability or absence of the sheriff of the proper ...
This documentary details the story behind convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell and his crimes, following the murder of eleven women found by Cleveland police in 2009. 'American Murder: The ...
The Ohio Penitentiary, also known as the Ohio State Penitentiary, was a prison operated from 1834 to 1984 in downtown Columbus, Ohio, in what is now known as the Arena District. The state had built a small prison in Columbus in 1813, but as the state's population grew the earlier facility was not able to handle the number of prisoners sent to ...
Two dead bodies were found in the Ohio River near Cincinnati within a 15-hour span, according to Boone County Water Rescue. On Friday at approximately 8:10 p.m., a Boone County Water Rescue team ...
Timothy Metcalf's dental records matched those of a body found in Ashland on Feb. 4 of this year. ... a member of the Ohio Special Response Search and Rescue team, and their K-9, search woods in ...