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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.
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 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]
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Case history; Prior: State v. Lockett, 49 Ohio St. 2d 48, 358 N.E.2d 1062 (1976); cert. granted, 434 U.S. 889 (1977).: Holding; The Ohio statute violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments in failing to require consideration of all mitigating factors surrounding the accused murderer before coming to the decision to apply the death penalty.
Anti-death penalty groups specifically argue that the death penalty is unfairly applied to African Americans. African Americans have constituted 34.5 percent of those persons executed since the death penalty's reinstatement in 1976 and 41 percent of death row inmates as of April 2018, [ 84 ] despite representing only 13 percent of the general ...
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.