Governor DeWine is issuing these reprieves due to what he calls ongoing problems involving the willingness of pharmaceutical suppliers to provide drugs to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and ...

A recent report has found that for every five death row inmates Ohio executes, one is exonerated. Since Ohio reinstated the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is again urging state officials to resume executions, arguing that ...

This past week, Ohio Attorney general Dave Yost wrote a highly critical report on Ohio's capital punishment system.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — After repeated postponements, Gov. Mike DeWine has set a new date to announce his personal view on Ohio’s death penalty. “I think it’ll be the week after the (May 5) primary,” the ...

The state of Ohio has executed 56 men since 1981, and in the same timeframe, vacated the convictions of 12 other men. Over the course of five decades, that’s a roughly 1-in-5 executed-to-exonerated ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost renewed his push to resume executions in Ohio Wednesday, calling the state's years-long pause on capital punishment a failure of justice for victims ...

Tia Green, one of the victims of Samuel Moreland's 1985 attack, expressed her conflicting emotions in the wake of Moreland's ...

With the release this week of his eighth and final “Capital Crimes report,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost renewed his call to end the unofficial moratorium on executions that has paralyzed Ohio’s ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The 2025 Capital Crimes report from the Ohio Attorney General is out, and even though a state ...

Ohio’s death penalty system has been called “profoundly unreliable” after a new report detailed wrongful convictions over the past four decades, according to WCMH. Since the state reinstated capital ...

A death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH A death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. THE COLUMBUS ...