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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 ...
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]
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.
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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.
A state estimate shows death sentences have cost Ohio taxpayers up to $384 million to care for and carry on seemingly never-ending legal casework for death row inmates.
Death (July 30, 1985) Details. Victims. David Lyman Self, 25. Date. February 18, 1985. The execution of Robert Van Hook occurred on July 18, 2018, at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. Van Hook was executed via lethal injection for the 1985 murder of 25-year-old David Self. His case achieved notoriety because of his ...
2 counts of felonious assault. On June 15, 2023, in Monroe Township, Ohio, U.S., [ 1] Clayton, Hunter, and Chase Doerman (ages seven, four and three respectively) [ 2] were shot and killed at their home. The 34-year-old wife [ 3] of the perpetrator was injured in the attack, and her daughter (the perpetrator's stepdaughter) was held at gunpoint ...