Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has extended the state's unofficial death penalty moratorium once again with the ...

Three men on death row have been granted a reprieve of execution by Gov. Mike DeWine, according to a press release from the ...

Douglas Coley, 49, of Toledo, was convicted of killing Samar El-Okdi, a Toledo woman, in 1997. DeWine’s office announced ...

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins penned two separate letters for U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Ohio Attorney ...

Four Ohio lawmakers are preparing to introduce identical bipartisan bills that legislate what they call end-of-life procedures.

“Capital punishment is impractical, unjust, inhumane, and erroneous. We stand together – progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans – seeking an end to executions in Ohio. The time to improve ...

"We want to make sure that Ohio is not subsidizing death, taking taxpayers' dollars, and putting its thumb on the scale when people are in difficult situations." The last execution by lethal ...

Items seized during the search of a home included computer hard drives, thumb drives, mobile devices and more.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

A 2021 Ohio law requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains from abortion has been blocked by a Hamilton County judge.

More than 100 men and one woman are incarcerated on death row in Ohio, according to Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections data. The state has not gone through with an execution since July ...