Death Penalty

As he prepares to leave office, Gov. Mike DeWine is in the process of considering commutations of multiple death sentences.

The Republican candidate for Ohio governor talked about a sales tax break for data centers, the death penalty and the Second Amendment, among other issues.

Recently, the spotlight has been on a failed lethal injection in Tennessee and the announcement that a federal execution will be broadcast live in December.

Some past witnesses to executions in Ohio say there have been several examples of botched lethal injections here.

Where a person comes down on the issue of the death penalty depends on what justice looks like to them. The answer isn’t that simple.

Like Gov. Mike DeWine, most agreed the death penalty is broken and does not deter crime, but not always with the same reasoning.

Where a person comes down on the issue of the death penalty depends on what justice looks like to them. The answer isn’t that simple.

Weeks before calling to abolish capital punishment in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine commuted the man's death sentence to life in prison without parole.

Ohio’s attorney general said he will continue to uphold the state’s death penalty law, in spite of a call for abolishment of the capital punishment from Gov. Mike DeWine, who appointed him AG.

In 1981, the longtime elected official, then an Ohio Senate member, voted for the law to reinstate the death sentence. Decades later, DeWine has changed his mind.