Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

The ACLU of Ohio is calling for a repeal of the state's current death penalty laws, but some conservative state lawmakers ...

I am sorry that Brenda is dead and I’m sorry that I am responsible for her death.” The 25-year-old was convicted of felonious ...

A Summit County Court of Common Pleas found that Shawn Ford Jr. did not have an intellectual disability, which would have ...

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has extended the state's unofficial death penalty moratorium once again with the ...

When 29-year-old Christopher Edward Debord of Germantown was convicted of robbing and killing a man, the judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — President Donald Trump wants to “restore the death penalty” through an executive order he signed earlier this week. “The death penalty is not effective ...

The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted suicide.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — There is once again a renewed push to abolish the death penalty in Ohio but this time, with a bit of a twist. The legislation, which has yet to be officially introduced ...