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The death penalty was reinstated in the state in 1981. From 1981 through the end of 2023, 336 people have received a combined 341 death sentences in Ohio. Fifty-six of those have been carried out.
Capital punishment hangs in an awkward state of limbo in Ohio these days. Yes, the death penalty remains on the books, and, yes, 122 men and one woman await their fate on death row.
Opponents of Ohio's death penalty are not interested in a path to justice for the victims of our most horrific crimes, Louis Tobin writes. Victims deserve justice. Why the effort to repeal the ...
56% of those responding said Ohio should abolish the death penalty and replace it with life sentences without the possibility of parole; 56% said the risk of executing innocent people is too great ...
The execution garnered new attention and significance in December 2020, when Governor Mike DeWine announced that the state of Ohio would no longer execute death row inmates via lethal injection. [5] Since the execution of Van Hook, there has been an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment in the state , as a result of the unavailability of ...
The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is where condemned individuals in Ohio are executed.. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Ohio, although all executions have been suspended indefinitely by Governor Mike DeWine until a replacement for lethal injection is chosen by the Ohio General Assembly. [1]
The death penalty in Ohio remains uncertain. Gov. Mike DeWine has suspended all executions as the state struggles to find suppliers that are willing to allow their drugs to be used to kill people.
Dennis B. McGuire (February 10, 1960 – January 16, 2014) [5] was sentenced to death on December 8, 1994, for the 1989 rape and murder of 22-year-old Joy Stewart in West Alexandria, Ohio. Stewart disappeared on February 11, 1989, and her body was found by two hikers the following day in the woods near Bantas Creek.