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The time is finally ripe to abolish the death penalty in Ohio Editorial Board, cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com © Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer/cleveland.com/TNS Serial killer Anthony Sowell, who died of natural causes Feb 8, never made it to an execution date. But his publicly funded defense against the death penalty cost taxpayers more than any case in Cuyahoga County history. This editorial board has long opposed the death penalty. That position only intensif...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Capital punishment would be banned in Ohio under upcoming legislation announced Thursday with both Democratic and Republican support, the latest bipartisan effort to end...

Three executions are scheduled in Ohio this year beginning in August, though the likelihood of those being carried out is low.

Ohio inmate who survived execution attempt for killing 14-year-old girl in Cleveland dies of coronavirus John Caniglia, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – After 36 years of pain, Bessye Middleton said she felt a bit of relief Wednesday: She and her family will no longer have to face the endless appeals involving Ohio’s death penalty. Middleton learned that Romell Broom, the man convicted of killing her 14-year-old daughter, Tryna, in September 1984 in Cleveland, had died Monday...

Ohio lawmakers pass legislation banning executions of the seriously mentally ill Updated Dec 17, 2020; Posted Dec 17, 2020 In this Nov. 2005 file photo, Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio. The Ohio General Assembly has passed legislation banning executions of murderers with serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipol...

Ohio’s next three scheduled executions postponed by Gov. Mike DeWine Updated Dec 18, 2020; Posted Dec 18, 2020 In this Nov. 2005 file photo, Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio.AP Facebook Share COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday postponed Ohio’s next three scheduled executions, in keeping with his vow to put capital...

Gov. Mike DeWine appeared to further distance himself from capital punishment on Tuesday by correcting a reporter who described him as a supporter of the death penalty. DeWine objected to the "premise" of the question: "I didnt say that. I said I am following the law in Ohio" that permits executions. The second-year Republican governor spoke on a wide range of topics Tuesday during a 90-minute-plus interview with editors and reporters from Gannett Ohio newspapers, including The Dispatch. DeW...

gvogrin@tribtoday.com Staff photo / Guy Vogrin Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins thumbs through the case file of convicted killer Kenneth Biros who was executed in December 2009. Now that Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has instructed lawmakers to choose a different method, local prosecutors are taking offense to the governor’s “unofficial moratorium” on capital punishment in the state. DeWine last week said it’s “pretty clear” there won’t be any executions in 2021, and he doesn’t...

Now that Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has instructed lawmakers to choose a different method, local prosecutors are taking offense to the governor’s “unofficial moratorium” on capital punishment in the state. DeWine last week said it’s “pretty clear” there won’t be any executions in 2021, and he doesn’t think there is enough support in the Legislature to prioritize a switch in the execution method. Ohio has an “unofficial moratorium” on capital punishment, DeWine said. Yet some sta...

ASHLAND -- On Thursday, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously upheld the conviction and death sentence for Shawn Grate in the murder of two Ashland women.  Grate, convicted of killing five women in Ashland and elsewhere, was sentenced in 2018 to death and a minimum of 90 years to life in prison for the local murders of Stacey Stanley and Elizabeth Griffith. He was later additionally sentenced to life in prison without parole in Richland County for the murders of two Mansfield women and again in...