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Date of execution County Method Victim(s) Governor 1 Wilford Berry Jr. White 36 M February 19, 1999 Cuyahoga: Lethal injection: Charles Mitroff Bob Taft: 2 Jay D. Scott: Black 48 M June 14, 2001 Vinnie M. Price 3 John William Byrd Jr. White 38 M February 19, 2002 Hamilton: Monte Tewksbury 4 Alton Coleman: Black 46 M April 26, 2002
The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is where condemned individuals in Ohio are executed.. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Ohio, although all executions have been suspended indefinitely by Governor Mike DeWine until a replacement for lethal injection is chosen by the Ohio General Assembly. [1]
Richard Michael DeWine (/ d ə ˈ w aɪ n / də-WYNE; [3] born January 5, 1947) is an American politician and attorney serving since 2019 as the 70th governor of Ohio.A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 50th attorney general of Ohio from 2011 to 2019, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991, and in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2007.
The 2022 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Ohio.Incumbent Republican governor Mike DeWine won re-election to a second term in a landslide, defeating Democratic nominee Nan Whaley, the former mayor of Dayton, with 62.4% of the vote. [2]
Republican state Attorney General Dave Yost scheduled a news conference Tuesday to discuss “next steps to kickstart” Ohio's capital punishment system.
DeWine, who co-sponsored Ohio's death penalty law as a state senator, recently told the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau that he doubted anyone would be executed during his tenure as governor. He ...
Keith was scheduled to be executed on September 15, 2010, by lethal injection, by a unanimous recommendation of the parole board. [17] On September 2, 2010, Ohio governor Ted Strickland commuted Keith's sentence to life without parole, noting that there were questions about the evidence and a "troubling" failure to investigate other suspects.
Two executions were conducted in 2022 and four people were executed last year, according to the DPI. Nine men remain on death row in the state, the Missouri Department of Corrections said.