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 ...

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 ...

Ohio's error rate in sending people to death row is troubling, as are the reasons for those wrongful convictions.

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 ...

Gov. Mike DeWine recently announced he will give his position soon on the enforcement of the death penalty in Ohio, which for nearly eight years has not been enforced because of the state’s inability ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is again calling for the state to resume executions, saying a years-long ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ohio is one of America’s most important death penalty “swing states.” Although the ultimate punishment is legal there, no one has been executed in the state since 2018, when Robert Van Hook was put to ...

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 ...