Death Penalty

Nearly half of Ohio lawmakers who are still alive from the General Assembly that passed the death penalty statute have signed onto a letter calling for a repeal of the law they helped create.

The standstill is due in part to pharmaceutical companies’ opposition to use of their products in the drug concoction that creates a lethal injection in Ohio Dr.

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has extended the state's unofficial death penalty moratorium once again with the postponements of three more executions scheduled for this year.

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

A perennial bill to abolish Ohio’s death penalty got another hearing Wednesday morning, but there’s little time left for it to move this year.

Republican defense attorney John Rutan is running against Democratic Columbus City Councilwoman Shayla Favor to be the next Franklin County Prosecutor.

Ohio’s attorney general says the state’s death penalty is “unworkable” as is, and he’s backing a plan to make a major change to it.

The recent execution of a man in Alabama using nitrogen has led some states, including Ohio, to consider reinstating the death penalty.

Ohio outlawed putting down pets by suffocating them with gas, and all but a handful of lawmakers backed that bill when it moved through the legislature in 2022.

Some Republican lawmakers want to move executions forward for the first time since 2018—none have happened since Gov. Mike DeWine took office.