Death Penalty

The latest Ohio Crime Report says the death penalty is costing the state millions of dollars because the law is on the books but there haven't been any executions since 2018.

With bipartisan support in the House and Senate, Ohio's new bills aimed at stopping capital punishment in Ohio are looking promising.

Opponents of the death penalty say they are concerned about a newly proposed abortion ban that could charge a woman who gets an abortion and a doctor...

There’s certainly an ongoing and uncivil war between many Republicans and Democrats. But two former Ohio governors have called a truce, and created a...

After months of warnings that a death row inmate was too sick to be executed, the state tried and failed to carry out his lethal injection. Convicted…

Ohio has more execution dates set than any other state. And a new report from Harvard Law School shows most of those condemned inmates have serious mental…

Ohio is preparing to put a condemned child killer to death in the state's first execution in more than three years.Forty-three-year-old Ronald Phillips is…

A federal appeals court is hearing arguments over the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection process as the state tries to start carrying out…

A federal judge has refused to lift his order delaying Ohio's executions after declaring the state's new lethal injection process…

Ohio must delay executing death row inmates after a federal judge ruled that its planned combination of drugs is unconstitutional. The state planned to…

Ohio says it plans to carry out at least three executions next year with a new three-drug combination.Thomas Madden with the Ohio attorney general's…

Ohio's largest anti-death penalty group wants more recommendations for changing the state's capital punishment law to be enacted.Ohioans To Stop…