Ohio hasn’t executed anyone since 2018, and Attorney General Dave Yost published a scathing annual report this week, tearing into , what he sees as a catastrophic failure of leadership. Today in Ohio ...

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 ...

Attorney General Dave Yost has made a strenuous case for Ohio to restart executions in his eighth and final capital crimes report. Why it matters: Ohio hasn't carried out an execution since 2018, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—While Gov. Mike DeWine is expected to soon publicly declare his opposition to Ohio’s death penalty, one of the state’s most powerful lawmakers vowed Wednesday to fight any attempt to ...

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 ...

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 ...