Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State.

The Department of Justice said on Friday it reinstated the use of lethal injection and expanded the execution protocol to ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last January, prioritizing the use of the death penalty in federal cases.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A recent report has found that for every five inmates Ohio executes, one is freed from death row. Since Ohio reinstated the death penalty in 1981, the state has executed 56 ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday that it will resume the federal use of capital punishment and that it is seeking death sentences against 44 defendants.  DOJ also said that it ...

A judge later ruled that federal prosecutors could not seek the death penalty for Mangione due to technical flaws in their ...

With another execution set, Brevard’s death row is nearly empty as Florida carries out a record number of executions.