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Columbus State Hospital, also known as Ohio State Hospital for Insane, was a public psychiatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1838 and rebuilt in 1877. [1] The hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan. [2] The building was said to have been the largest in the U.S. or the world, until the Pentagon was completed in 1943. [3] [4]
The Athens Lunatic Asylum, now a mixed-use development known as The Ridges, [2] was a Kirkbride Plan mental hospital operated in Athens, Ohio, from 1874 until 1993. During its operation, the hospital provided services to a variety of patients including Civil War veterans, children, and those declared mentally unwell.
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The death penalty was reinstated in the state in 1981. From 1981 through the end of 2023, 336 people have received a combined 341 death sentences in Ohio. Fifty-six of those have been carried out.
A state estimate shows death sentences have cost Ohio taxpayers up to $384 million to care for and carry on seemingly never-ending legal casework for death row inmates.
The death penalty in Ohio remains uncertain. Gov. Mike DeWine has suspended all executions as the state struggles to find suppliers that are willing to allow their drugs to be used to kill people.
The Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum is an historic structure at 2335 Wayne Ave. in Dayton, Ohio. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1979. The 300-acre (120 ha) complex was designed as a mental asylum in accordance with principles advocated by Philadelphia psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride in the mid-19th ...
The charges were filed Friday against a nurse, two psychiatric assistants and a former patient at Twin Valley in connection with the 2022 death. 4 charged, including nurse, in 2022 death of ...