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(1934) The Auto-Lite Strike, which culminated in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers, began. April 13 (1792) Major General Anthony Wayne , where Wayne County, Ohio gets its name from, was summoned by George Washington to lead an army against the Indians of the Northwest Territory .
The EU is part of a worldwide movement against the death penalty. Amnesty International's annual report found that in 2019, prisoners were executed in only 20 of the 195 countries of the world. [31] Members of many religious faiths in Ohio have also officially opposed the death penalty. [32] [33]
The Ohio Penitentiary, also known as the Ohio State Penitentiary, was a prison operated from 1834 to 1984 in downtown Columbus, Ohio, in what is now known as the Arena District. The state had built a small prison in Columbus in 1813, but as the state's population grew the earlier facility was not able to handle the number of prisoners sent to ...
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Capital punishment hangs in an awkward state of limbo in Ohio these days. Yes, the death penalty remains on the books, and, yes, 122 men and one woman await their fate on death row. ... In Other News.
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.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Ohio since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. [1] All of the following people have been executed for murder since the Gregg v. Georgia decision. All 56 were executed by lethal injection. [2]
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976