COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Gov. Mike DeWine prepares to retire without allowing any executions during his eight years in office, it will be up to his successor to figure out what to do with the state’s ...

For months, Ohio’s major gubernatorial candidates managed to dance around the main issues facing Ohioans, but they went on the record with reporter Jeremy Pelzer on one of the most consequential ...

Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State. But Ohio’s thoughtful and respected chief executive has yet to say what he ...

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 ...

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

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 political leaders have debated the future of capital punishment, given the state’s struggle to find a supply of lethal injection drugs. Drug makers have threatened to cut off access to ...

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 ...

Tia Green was 5 years old when she was shot in the head and left for dead in an attack by her grandmother’s boyfriend in their Dayton home that killed five of her family members, including her mother, ...