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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.
Ohio executed a man convicted of a 1985 murder on ... Facility in Lucasville brought to 56 the number of executions in Ohio since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 ...
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.
Republican state Attorney General Dave Yost scheduled a news conference Tuesday to discuss “next steps to kickstart” Ohio's capital punishment system.
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 ...
Attorney General Dave Yost offers some poignant perspective on this plight: “The bottom line: Ohio’s death penalty is a farce and a broken promise of justice — and it must be fixed.”