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Bomani Shakur (Keith LaMar), unaffiliated with any of the above-mentioned groups, was sentenced to death in 1995 [23] for his leadership of a group who killed inmates during the riot. [24] He denies his leadership and claims the State of Ohio suppressed evidence that could demonstrate his innocence. [25]
An inmate allegedly assaulted and killed a veteran corrections officer on Christmas Day at an Ohio prison, an attack authorities said was "beyond comprehension." Officer Andrew Lansing was ...
A corrections officer at an Ohio prison was killed Christmas day when an inmate attacked him, authorities said Wednesday.. The assault occurred Wednesday morning at the Ross Correctional ...
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]
An Ohio prison inmate, who said he was attacked by multiple corrections officers while handcuffed, has settled a lawsuit he filed against the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
Only 28 people were ever executed by the state of Ohio via hanging before the state switched to the electric chair in 1897. "That the mode of inflicting the punishment of death in all cases under this act, shall be by hanging by the neck, until the person so to be punished shall be dead; & the sheriff, or the coroner in the case of the death, inability or absence of the sheriff of the proper ...
"The loss of a staff person is difficult, but to lose a family member on Christmas Day at the hands of someone in our custody is a tragedy beyond comprehension."
The Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) is a 502-inmate capacity supermax Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction prison in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. Throughout the last two centuries, there have been two institutions with the name Ohio Penitentiary or Ohio State Penitentiary; the first prison was in Columbus, Ohio .