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.