Due to the current legal challenges facing Ohio’s lethal injection protocol, Governor Kasich has rescheduled all 2017 executions. The next execution is now scheduled to take place on May 10, 2017.
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.