Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are 113 people sitting on Ohio's death row. Some were sentenced to death decades ago, for murders committed in the 1980s and ...

Southwest Ohio's longest-serving resident on the state's Death Row has died, just over 40 years after he was arrested for the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOIO) -Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost testified before the House Judiciary Committee encouraging Ohio to become the next state to use nitrogen hypoxia to execute death row inmates.

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 ...

Former Ohio death row inmate Elwood Jones discusses his case and the support he is receiving from his church family as he awaits word on whether he will be retried for murder. Nearly three decades ...

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 — 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 ...

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 ...