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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Ohio since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. [1] All of the following people have been executed for murder since the Gregg v. Georgia decision. All 56 were executed by lethal injection. [2]
No.NameRaceAge56White5855White4554White4353White53List of Defendants Executed by Year Select a Year Select a Year 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1987-1990 1976-1986 2024
The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is where condemned individuals in Ohio are executed. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Ohio, although all executions have been suspended indefinitely by Governor Mike DeWine until a replacement for lethal injection is chosen by the Ohio General Assembly. [ 1 ]
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Until 1885, executions were carried out by public hangings, which were conducted by individual counties. In 1885, death row and executions were moved to the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. The electric chair was first used in Ohio in 1897 and was used to execute 312 men and 3 women. The last person executed with the electric chair was Donald Reinbol...
1885 - Ohio legislature requires that all executions performed within the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, must be conducted by hanging. 1897 - Ohio first used the electric chair. Electrocution replaces hanging and is seen as a more humane method of execution. 1963 - Donald Reinbolt becomes the last person to be executed with the electric chair...
Sandra Lockett was sentenced to death for her involvement in a robbery and murder. At the time, Ohio’s statute allowed judges in capital cases to consider only three mitigating factors. If none of those factors were found in a case, the defendant had to be sentenced to death. Lockett’s case was appealed to the Supreme Court. In Lockett v. Ohio (197...
Joe D’Ambrosiowas exonerated in 2012, 23 years after he was convicted. A federal District Court had first overturned D’Ambrosio’s conviction in 2006 because the state had withheld key evidence from the defense. The federal court originally allowed the state to re-prosecute him, but just before trial the state revealed the existence of even more imp...
In 1991, Ohio Governor Richard Celeste commuted the sentences of eight inmates on Ohio’s death row, citing a “disturbing racial pattern” in sentencing.
Ohio reinstated the death penalty in 1974, but the law was struck down as unconstitutional in 1978. The current law went into effect in 1981. HB 160, a death penalty abolition bill, was introduced by Rep. Ted Celeste in the 129th General Assembly on March 15, 2011.
Ohio was the first state to adopt a one-drug execution protocol. Ohio was also the first state to change from the one-drug protocol of sodium thiopental to pentobarbital. In 2010, Ohio passed a sweeping criminal justice reform bill to curb wrongful convictions called the DNA Access Bill (128th GA, SB 77).
“Old Sparky,” as the electric chair came to be known, claimed the lives of 315 killers between 1897 and 1963, beginning with William Haas, 17, of Hamilton County and ending with Donald Reinbolt, 29, of Columbus. Ohio had three botched executions in a four-year period: Joseph Clark (May 2006) Christopher Newton (May 2007) Romell Broom (September 200...
Apr 1, 2021 · 4/1/2021. (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today issued the 2020 Capital Crimes Report, an annual accounting and procedural history of each case that has resulted in a death sentence in Ohio since 1981, the year the state’s current death penalty law was enacted. From 1981 through 2020, the report says, a total of 140 death ...
May 16, 2019 · Some facts and figures* from the 2018 Annual Report on Capital Crimes, recently completed by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office: 333. Death sentences issued by juries in Ohio since 1981, including four in 2018. 56. People who have been executed, including one in 2018 — Robert Van Hook. 21.
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Since Ohio reinstated the death penalty in October 1981, 3,423 capital indictments have been filed, resulting in 341 death sentences for 336 individuals (five individuals received two death sentences each). As of December 31, 2023, there were 119 individuals (with 121 death sentences) on Ohio’s death row. The last execution was in July 2018.
