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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]
Over a three-day period between December 24 and December 26, 1992, a juvenile gang, who called themselves the "Downtown Posse", led by the 19-year-old ringleader Marvallous Matthew Keene (July 5, 1973 – July 21, 2009), committed a series of six murders and multiple robberies across Dayton, Ohio.
Serial killers at some point active in their killing in the state of Ohio, United States of America. Pages in category "Serial killers from Ohio" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
The first murders for which Edwards was convicted took place in Ohio in 1977. William "Billy" Lavaco, 21, of Doylestown, Ohio, and his girlfriend Judith Straub, 18, of Sterling, Ohio, had been dating eight months when Straub's car was found in the parking lot of Silver Creek Metro park in Norton, on August 7, 1977, with her purse and shoes inside. [10]
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Neal Bradley Long (September 19, 1927 – June 12, 1998), known as The Shotgun Slayer, was an American serial killer responsible for at least 21 attacks perpetrated against African-American men in Dayton, Ohio, between 1972 and September 1975, as a result of which between four and seven people died and 14 others were wounded.
American author John Peyton Cooke wrote a fictionalized account of the murders in his novel Torsos, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Mystery for 1993, [49] [50] [51] and was noted by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review for its atmospheric depiction of Cleveland, Ohio, during the Great Depression.
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