Ohio
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 20260
SENTENCES0
From the country
APRIL 16, 2026OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Charles Maxwell’s Death Sentence overturned
Under State’s Serious Mental Illness Law
APRIL 6, 2026OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Ohio Ohioans to Stop Executions Report: every 5 executions, 1 exoneration
Death penalty ‘profoundly unreliable’
MARCH 5, 2026OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Derrick Jamison wrongfully imprisoned in 1985 murder case, judge rules
Can now seek compensation from the state
JANUARY 30, 2026OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Governor DeWine postpones 3 more executions
Gerald Hand, Danny Lee Hill, Cleveland R. Jackson
DECEMBER 12, 2025OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Elwood Jones, now 57, Black, exonerated
Spent 27 years on death row
MAY 9, 2025OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Death sentence of Donna Roberts overturned
Not the guilty verdict
- MAY 1, 2025OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. Court overturns Nathaniel Jackson’s death sentence
- FEBRUARY 13, 2025OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. Gov DeWine issues 3 death penalty reprieves
Rescheduling executions to 2028
- OCTOBER 18, 2024OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. Governor DeWine grants reprieves to 3 death row inmates
Executions for Stanley Adams, John Drummond, and James Hanna postponed to 2028
AUGUST 19, 2024OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. David Lee Myers, 60, White, was released on Monday
AUGUST 6, 2024OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. David Lee Myers granted new trial in 1988 murder
MAY 14, 2024OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Gurpreet Singh, 41, Asian, sentenced to death