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]

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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]

In 1974, the Ohio General Assembly revised Ohio’s Death Penalty law, but the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the new law in 1978. As a result, 97 condemned prisoners, including four women, had their sentences commuted to life in prison.

2021 — Ohio bans the impo­si­tion of the death penal­ty on defen­dants who are severe­ly men­tal­ly ill at the time of the offense. 2023 — The Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hear­ing on Senate Bill 101 that, if passed, would abol­ish the state’s death penalty.

From 1981 to Jan. 30, 2024, a total of 336 criminals convicted in Ohio received a combined 341 death sentences, the report said. Only 56 sentences — one in six — have been carried out. In releasing the report, Yost emphasized the need to broaden the death-penalty conversation and give a voice to victims’ families.