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The Supreme Court ruled that the Ohio 11th District Court of Appeals wrongfully allowed Hill to rely on the Ohio Rules of ...

Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State.

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 (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 ...

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 ...

This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Patrick Leonard, convicted of the kidnapping, assault, attempted rape and aggravated murder ...

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 ...

Charles Maxwell, a person on death row convicted of murdering his child's mother, had his death sentence overturned under ...