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4 days ago · Find the names, sentences, and counties of the 118 Ohio incarcerated individuals on death row for aggravated murder. The web page also provides statistics, reports, and executions information.
Find data on incarcerated individuals who are currently serving time in an Ohio prison, currently under department supervision, or judicially released. Search by name, county, hearing date, and more to narrow your results.
View the execution schedule of death row inmates in Ohio from the official website of the ODRC. Search by name, date, or status of the execution process.
Apr 2, 2018 · Justin Madden, cleveland.com. The state of Ohio currently has 136 inmates on death row awaiting a date for their execution. Of that number, 26 men are scheduled to die by 2023. Prison...
- History of The Death Penalty
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Until 1885, executions were carried out by public hangings, which were conducted by individual counties. In 1885, death row and executions were moved to the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. The electric chair was first used in Ohio in 1897 and was used to execute 312 men and 3 women. The last person executed with the electric chair was Donald Reinbol...
1885 - Ohio legislature requires that all executions performed within the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, must be conducted by hanging. 1897 - Ohio first used the electric chair. Electrocution replaces hanging and is seen as a more humane method of execution. 1963 - Donald Reinbolt becomes the last person to be executed with the electric chair...
Sandra Lockett was sentenced to death for her involvement in a robbery and murder. At the time, Ohio’s statute allowed judges in capital cases to consider only three mitigating factors. If none of those factors were found in a case, the defendant had to be sentenced to death. Lockett’s case was appealed to the Supreme Court. In Lockett v. Ohio (197...
Joe D’Ambrosiowas exonerated in 2012, 23 years after he was convicted. A federal District Court had first overturned D’Ambrosio’s conviction in 2006 because the state had withheld key evidence from the defense. The federal court originally allowed the state to re-prosecute him, but just before trial the state revealed the existence of even more imp...
In 1991, Ohio Governor Richard Celeste commuted the sentences of eight inmates on Ohio’s death row, citing a “disturbing racial pattern” in sentencing.
Ohio reinstated the death penalty in 1974, but the law was struck down as unconstitutional in 1978. The current law went into effect in 1981. HB 160, a death penalty abolition bill, was introduced by Rep. Ted Celeste in the 129th General Assembly on March 15, 2011.
Ohio was the first state to adopt a one-drug execution protocol. Ohio was also the first state to change from the one-drug protocol of sodium thiopental to pentobarbital. In 2010, Ohio passed a sweeping criminal justice reform bill to curb wrongful convictions called the DNA Access Bill (128th GA, SB 77).
“Old Sparky,” as the electric chair came to be known, claimed the lives of 315 killers between 1897 and 1963, beginning with William Haas, 17, of Hamilton County and ending with Donald Reinbolt, 29, of Columbus. Ohio had three botched executions in a four-year period: Joseph Clark (May 2006) Christopher Newton (May 2007) Romell Broom (September 200...
Sep 20, 2018 · A list of 27 death row inmates in Ohio who had scheduled execution dates between July 2017 and September 2020, but were postponed due to legal challenges. See the names, counties, dates, races, genders, and life without parole options of the inmates.
Jul 18, 2023 · Between 1976 and 2018, what Maher refers to as the “modern era of the death penalty,” 56 inmates were executed in Ohio. Currently, 123 inmates sit on Ohio’s death row, making it the...
