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, ...

This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Patrick Leonard, convicted of the kidnapping, assault, attempted rape and aggravated murder ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Capital punishment is a sensitive topic for Lamont Hunter Sr. "I was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death back in 2007," he told 10 Investigates. The Case That Led to Death Row ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A man who spent more than a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a woman at an Ohio hotel had his case dismissed Friday by prosecutors. Elwood Jones has been ...

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 ...