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Court halts Ohio’s plan to resume executions
A federal magistrate today blocked Ohio’s plans to resume carrying out executions next month, finding that the state’s latest three-drug lethal injection process is likely unconstitutional.
Ohio should reform death penalty, not rush back to executions
Ohio’s death penalty has been notoriously riddled with problems for years, including four botched executions in less than a decade, a growing mountain of evidence illustrating vast racial and geographic disparities, and seven exonerations since 2003.
Appeals court panel upholds secrecy order for Ohio’s execution drugs
A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld a protective order shielding the state of Ohio from having to disclose the names of those who make or use the state’s lethal-injection drugs.
Kasich postpones first two executions scheduled next year
Gov. John Kasich has briefly postponed the first two executions scheduled next year. Kasich reset the execution of Ronald Phillips of Summit County, scheduled for Jan. 12, to Feb. 15, and pushed the Feb. 15 execution of Raymond Tibbetts to April 12.
Ohio Supreme Court Rules Tyrone Noling Can Pursue DNA Testing Appeal in Long-Running Death Row Innocence Case
(Columbus, Ohio, December 21, 2016) Today, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled in favor of death row prisoner Tyrone Noling, clearing the way for Mr. Noling’s pursuit of DNA testing and results to prove his innocence. At issue in Ohio v. Noling was a state law allowing non-capital defendants to appeal denials of requested DNA testing, while denying death […]
Ohio Follows National Trend of Historic Lows in New Capital Indictments
Use of the death penalty fell to historic lows in Ohio and across the United States in 2016, according to year-end statistics on capital punishment released today by the Death Penalty Information Center.
Petition Urges Governor Kasich to Show Mercy to Romell Broom
The US Supreme Court today declined to consider an Ohio Supreme Court ruling to allow a second attempt at executing a man who spent two hours enduring at least 18 needle jabs in a botched 2009 execution attempt, Ohioans to Stop Executions has updated its petition calling on Governor Kasich to show mercy to Romell Broom by commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment.
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Lethal Injection
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge from a death row inmate who argued that because the state botched its first attempt to execute him, trying again would be unconstitutional.