SPRINGFIELD — When Ohio’s death row moves to Chillicothe Correctional Institution this month, six notorious prisoners will be left behind, including Springfield’s Jason Dean. State officials said the ...

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 ...

Death penalty abolitionists in Ohio and Tennessee are hard at work trying to prevent the executions of Death Row inmates in ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...

Mentally ill inmates set to be executed in Ohio, group says Ohio is planning to execute nearly two dozen men who have suffered childhood trauma, serious mental illness and intellectual impairment, ...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost at a news conference discussing alternative methods for carrying out executions on Jan. 30, 2024. If you or anyone you know is in crisis, the National Suicide Hotline ...