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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 last execution in the state was in July 2018, when Robert J. Van Hook was executed via lethal injection for ...
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Background. 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.
Since the current capital punishment law was adopted in 1981, only 56 of some 341 death sentences have been carried out. In the past five years, zero executions have taken place.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, center, talks about reviving the death penalty in Ohio with a new method. Rep. Brian Stewart, R-Ashville, right, is a co-sponsor of the bill.
Capital punishment abolished or struck down. Capital punishment is a legal penalty. In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. [ b][ 1] It is also a legal penalty for some military ...
The Ohio Legislature is considering Senate Bill 129, which would allow optometrists to perform a range of eye surgeries, including laser surgeries, scalpel excision of eyelid lesions and cysts ...
Blinding is a type of physical punishment which results in complete or nearly complete loss of vision. It was used as an act of revenge and torture. [ 1] The punishment has been used since Antiquity; Greek mythology makes several references to blinding as divine punishment, which reflects human practice. In the Byzantine Empire and many other ...