Ohio hasn’t executed anyone since 2018, and Attorney General Dave Yost published a scathing annual report this week, tearing into , what he sees as a catastrophic failure of leadership. Today in Ohio ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A recent report has found that for every five inmates Ohio executes, one is freed from death row. Since Ohio reinstated the death penalty in 1981, the state has executed 56 ...

Attorney General Dave Yost has made a strenuous case for Ohio to restart executions in his eighth and final capital crimes report. Why it matters: Ohio hasn't carried out an execution since 2018, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The 2025 Capital Crimes report from the Ohio Attorney General is out, and even though a state execution hasn’t been carried out in Ohio in nearly a decade, it has still cost ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Gov. Mike DeWine prepares to retire without allowing any executions during his eight years in office, it will be up to his successor to figure out what to do with the state’s ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is again urging state officials to resume executions, arguing that the state’s pause on the death penalty makes a “mockery” of victims and their ...

A man who spent more than a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a woman at an Ohio hotel had his case dismissed Friday by prosecutors. Elwood Jones has been free since shortly ...