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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]
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC or ODRC) is the administrative department of the Ohio state government responsible for oversight of Ohio State Correctional Facilities, along with its Incarcerated Individuals. [1] Ohio's prison system is the sixth-largest in America, with 27 state prisons and three facilities for juveniles.
It was also noted that Ohio scheduled the execution dates of the condemned at a heightened rate during that year of 2009 itself, with at least one death warrant per month, and Keene was one of the five executed in Ohio that same year. [51] Keene was the 31st condemned inmate to be executed in Ohio since the state's resumption of executions in 1999.
Jay D. Scott (August 21, 1952 – June 14, 2001) was an American convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Ohio for the 1983 murder of a delicatessen owner in Cleveland. He was the second man put to death by Ohio since it reinstated capital punishment in 1981 and the first to be executed involuntarily.
Richard Edwin Fox (February 3, 1956 – February 12, 2003) was an American murderer who was executed by the state of Ohio for the kidnapping and murder of an 18-year-old college student whom he lured to her death with the fake promise of a job interview. He was also suspected of killing his wife in Oregon in 1983.
Wilford Lee Berry Jr. (September 2, 1962 – February 19, 1999) [1] was an American murderer. He was known as "The Volunteer" because he was the first convict to waive his right to appeal his death sentence after Ohio reinstated capital punishment, and was executed by lethal injection.
Romell Broom, 64, has been placed on the "COVID probable list" maintained by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, pending a death certificate. Ohio inmate who survived execution ...
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 ...