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Find information regarding Ohio prison incarcerated individuals with death sentences for aggravated murdered.
Search our filterable table to view the execution schedule from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections.
As of September 9, 2024, Ohio has 114 inmates on death row. [23] Notable inmates on Ohio's death row include serial killers: Shawn Grate, Anthony Kirkland, and Michael Madison. The only woman on Ohio's death row is Donna Roberts, who murdered her ex-husband in order to collect his life insurance. [23]
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]
In 1991, Ohio Governor Richard Celeste commuted the sentences of eight inmates on Ohio’s death row, citing a “disturbing racial pattern” in sentencing. Milestones in Abolition/Reinstatement. Ohio reinstated the death penalty in 1974, but the law was struck down as unconstitutional in 1978. The current law went into effect in 1981.
In 1972, the United States Supreme Court declared the death penalty to be unconstitutional. The decision reduced the death sentences of 60 Ohio incarcerated individuals to life in prison. Also in 1972, Death Row was moved to the newly opened Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at Lucasville.
A review of Ohio's death row in wake of Missouri execution Tuesday shows 114 inmates, including 8 from Franklin County and 2 or those have dates set.