COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Efforts to abolish capital punishment in Ohio are heating up with a bipartisan bill that has drawn the support of former lawmakers who helped enact the state’s death penalty ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year has hit a 15-year high. A handful of states have suddenly ...

Ohio hasn’t executed anyone on death row since 2018. Under Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who says the state can’t get the drugs it needs for lethal injections, the state has had an unofficial death penalty ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—After years of repeatedly announcing postponements of scheduled executions in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine has now scheduled a new death-penalty announcement for next month: one about his ...

Ohio has not carried out an execution since 2018, creating a de facto moratorium under Gov. Mike DeWine. State lawmakers are at an impasse over whether to abolish capital punishment or authorize new ...

The application of Ohio's death penalty varies significantly by county, influenced by the views of elected prosecutors. Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties have historically sent the most people to death ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – More than 20 years after their loved ones were murdered in central Ohio, Becky Rodeniser and Jennifer Conley are still waiting for the state to execute the convicted killers.