List of people executed in Ohio

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Ohio since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. ^[1]

All of the following people have been executed for murder since the Gregg v. Georgia decision. All 56 were executed by lethal injection. ^[2] However, any future execution will no longer be performed using this method, due to a ruling by Governor Mike DeWine in December 2020. ^[3] Notable persons executed in Ohio before the Gregg decision include Anna Marie Hahn.

List of people executed in Ohio since 1976

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1	Wilford Berry Jr.	White	36	M	February 19, 1999	Cuyahoga	Lethal injection	Charles Mitroff	Bob Taft
2	Jay D. Scott	Black	48	M	June 14, 2001			Vinnie M. Price
3	John William Byrd Jr.	White	38	M	February 19, 2002	Hamilton		Monte Tewksbury
4	Alton Coleman	Black	46	M	April 26, 2002			Tonnie Storey and Marlene Walters
5	Robert Anthony Buell	White	62	M	September 25, 2002	Wayne		Krista Harrison [a]
6	Richard Edwin Fox	White	47	M	February 12, 2003	Wood		Leslie Renae Keckler
7	David M. Brewer	White	44	M	April 29, 2003	Greene		Sherry Byrne
8	Ernest Martin	Black	42	M	June 18, 2003	Cuyahoga		Robert Robinson
9	Lewis Williams Jr.	Black	45	M	January 14, 2004			Leoma Chmielewski
10	John Glenn Roe	White	41	M	February 3, 2004	Franklin		Donette Crawford
11	William Dean Wickline Jr.	White	52	M	March 30, 2004			Peggy Lerch and Christopher Lerch
12	William Gerald Zuern Jr.	White	45	M	June 8, 2004	Hamilton		Hamilton County Deputy Sheriff Phillip Pence
13	Stephen Allen Vrabel	White	47	M	July 14, 2004	Mahoning		Susan Clemente and Lisa Clemente
14	Scott Andrew Mink	White	40	M	July 20, 2004	Montgomery		William Mink and Sheila Mink
15	Adremy Dennis	Black	28	M	October 13, 2004	Summit		Kurt Kyle
16	William Henry Smith	Black	47	M	March 8, 2005	Hamilton		Mary Bradford
17	Herman Dale Ashworth	White	32	M	September 27, 2005	Licking		Daniel L. Baker
18	William James "Flip" Williams Jr.	Black	48	M	October 25, 2005	Summit		4 murder victims [b]
19	John R. Hicks	Black	49	M	November 29, 2005	Hamilton		Brandy Green and Maxine Armstrong
20	Glenn Lee Benner II	White	43	M	February 7, 2006	Summit		Trina Bowser and Cynthia Sedgwick
21	Joseph Lewis Clark	Black	57	M	May 2, 2006	Lucas		David A. Manning and Donald B. Harris
22	Rocky Lee Barton	White	49	M	July 12, 2006	Warren		Kimbirli Jo Barton
23	Darrell Wayne Ferguson	White	28	M	August 8, 2006	Montgomery		Thomas King, Arlie Fugate, and Mae Fugate
24	Jeffrey Don Lundgren	White	56	M	October 24, 2006	Lake		5 murder victims [c]
25	James J. Filiaggi	White	41	M	April 24, 2007	Lorain		Lisa Huff Filiaggi	Ted Strickland
26	Christopher J. Newton	White	37	M	May 24, 2007	Richland		Jason Brewer
27	Richard Wade Cooey II	White	41	M	October 14, 2008	Summit		Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery
28	Gregory Bryant-Bey	Black	53	M	November 19, 2008			Dale Pinkelman and Pete Mihas
29	Daniel E. Wilson	White	39	M	June 3, 2009	Lorain		Carol Lutz
30	John Joseph Fautenberry	White	46	M	July 14, 2009	Hamilton		5 murder victims [d]
31	Marvallous Matthew Keene [4]	Black	36	M	July 21, 2009	Montgomery		6 murder victims [e]
32	Jason Getsy	White	33	M	August 18, 2009	Trumbull		Ann Serafino
33	Kenneth Biros	White	51	M	December 8, 2009			Tami Engstrom
34	Vernon Lamont Smith	Black	37	M	January 7, 2010	Lucas		Sohail Darwish
35	Mark Aaron Brown	Black	37	M	February 4, 2010	Mahoning		Hayder Al-Turk and Isam Salman
36	Lawrence Raymond Reynolds	White	43	M	March 16, 2010	Summit		Loretta Foster
37	Darryl M. Durr	Black	46	M	April 20, 2010	Cuyahoga		Angel Vincent
38	Michael Francis Beuke	White	48	M	May 13, 2010	Hamilton		Robert Craig
39	William L. Garner	Black	37	M	July 13, 2010			5 murder victims [f]
40	Roderick Davie	Black	38	M	August 10, 2010	Trumbull		John Ira Coleman and Tracey Jeffreys
41	Michael W. Benge	White	49	M	October 6, 2010	Butler		Judith Gabbard
42	Frank G. Spisak Jr.	White	59	M	February 17, 2011	Cuyahoga		Rev. Horace Rickerson, Brian Warford, and Timothy Sheehan	John Kasich
43	Johnnie Roy Baston	Black	37	M	March 10, 2011	Lucas		Chong-Hoon Mah
44	Clarence Carter	Black	49	M	April 12, 2011	Hamilton		Johnny Allen
45	Daniel Lee Bedford	White	63	M	May 17, 2011			Gwen Toepfert and John Smith
46	Reginald Brooks Sr.	Black	66	M	November 15, 2011	Cuyahoga		Reginald Brooks Jr., Vaughn Brooks, and Niarchos Brooks
47	Mark Wayne Wiles	White	49	M	April 18, 2012	Portage		Mark Klima
48	Donald L. Palmer	White	47	M	September 20, 2012	Belmont		Charles Sponhaltz and Steven Vargo
49	Brett Xavier Hartman	White	38	M	November 13, 2012	Summit		Winda Snipes
50	Frederick Treesh	White	48	M	March 6, 2013	Lake		Henry Dupree
51	Steven T. Smith	White	46	M	May 1, 2013	Richland		Autumn Carter
52	Harry D. Mitts Jr.	White	61	M	September 25, 2013	Cuyahoga		John Bryant and Garfield Heights, Ohio police Sgt. Dennis Glivar
53	Dennis B. McGuire	White	53	M	January 16, 2014	Preble		Joy Stewart
54	Ronald Ray Phillips	White	43	M	July 26, 2017	Summit		Sheila Marie Evans
55	Gary Wayne Otte	White	45	M	September 13, 2017	Cuyahoga		Robert Wasikowski and Sharon Kostura
56	Robert J. Van Hook	White	58	M	July 18, 2018	Hamilton		David Self

Demographics

Race
White	37	66%
Black	19	34%
Age
20–29	2	4%
30–39	13	23%
40–49	29	52%
50–59	8	14%
60–69	4	7%
Sex
Male	56	100%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	0	0%
1990–1999	1	2%
2000–2009	32	57%
2010–2019	23	41%
2020–2029	0	0%
Method
Lethal injection	56	100%
Governor (Party)
Jim Rhodes (R)	0	0%
Dick Celeste (D)	0	0%
George Voinovich (R)	0	0%
Nancy Hollister (R)	0	0%
Bob Taft (R)	24	43%
Ted Strickland (D)	17	30%
John Kasich (R)	15	27%
Mike DeWine (R)	0	0%
Total	56	100%

Notes

1. Buell was also responsible for the murder of Tina Harmon.
2. The 4 victims were: William Dent, Alfonda R. Madison Sr., Eric Howard, and Theodore Wynn Jr.
3. The 5 victims were: Dennis Avery, Cheryl Avery, Trina Avery, Rebecca Avery, and Karen Avery.
4. The 5 victims were: Joseph Daron Jr., Jefferson Difee, Gary Farmer, Christine Guthrie, and Donald Nutley. Fautenberry was executed for Daron's murder in Ohio, the other victims were killed in Alaska, New Jersey, and Oregon.
5. The 6 victims were: Sarah Abraham, Wendy Cottrill, Danita Gullette, Marvin Washington, Richmond Maddox, and Joseph Wilkerson. Keene was convicted of five of the murders, but not the murder of Maddox.
6. The 5 victims were: Deondra Freeman, Richard Gaines, Markeca Mason, Mykkila Mason, and Denitra Satterwhite.

See also

• Capital punishment in Ohio
• Capital punishment in the United States

References

1. "Executions 1999-Present". Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
2. "Execution Database | Death Penalty Information Center". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
3. "Ohio governor: Lethal injection no longer execution option". Associated Press . December 8, 2020.
4. Powell, Lisa; Grimes, Becky. "29 years after southwest Ohio Christmas murder spree: 'It will never be forgotten". Journal-News . Retrieved April 10, 2022.