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.
No. | Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of execution | County | Method | Victim(s) | Governor |
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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 [lower-alpha 1] | ||
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 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 [lower-alpha 2] | ||
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 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 Lundgren | White | 56 | M | October 24, 2006 | Lake | 5 murder victims [lower-alpha 3] | ||
25 | James J. Filiaggi | White | 41 | M | April 24, 2007 | Lorain | Lisa Huff Filiaggi | Ted Strickland | |
26 | Christopher Newton | White | 37 | M | May 24, 2007 | Richland | Jason Brewer | ||
27 | Richard Cooey | 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 [lower-alpha 4] | ||
31 | Marvallous Keene [4] | Black | 36 | M | July 21, 2009 | Montgomery | 6 murder victims [lower-alpha 5] | ||
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 Garner | Black | 37 | M | July 13, 2010 | 5 murder victims [lower-alpha 6] | |||
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 |
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% |
In the United States, capital punishment is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. It is also a legal penalty for some military offenses. Capital punishment has been abolished in 23 states and in the federal capital, Washington, D.C. It is usually applied for only the most serious crimes, such as aggravated murder. Although it is a legal penalty in 27 states, 19 states currently have the ability to execute death sentences, with the other 7, as well as the federal government and military, being subject to different types of moratoriums.
In the U.S. state of California, capital punishment is not allowed to be carried out as of March 2019, because executions were halted by an official moratorium ordered by Governor Gavin Newsom. Before the moratorium, executions had been frozen by a federal court order since 2006, and the litigation resulting in the court order has been on hold since the promulgation of the moratorium. Thus, there will be a court-ordered moratorium on executions after the termination of Newsom's moratorium if capital punishment remains a legal penalty in California by then.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Ohio, although all executions have been suspended indefinitely by Governor Mike DeWine until a replacement for lethal injection is chosen by the Ohio General Assembly. The last execution in the state was in July 2018, when Robert J. Van Hook was executed via lethal injection for murder.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Utah.
The U.S. state of Washington enforced capital punishment until the state's capital punishment statute was declared null and void and abolished in practice by a state Supreme Court ruling on October 11, 2018. The court ruled that it was unconstitutional as applied due to racial bias however it did not render the wider institution of capital punishment unconstitutional and rather required the statute to be amended to eliminate racial biases. From 1904 to 2010, 78 people were executed by the state; the last was Cal Coburn Brown on September 10, 2010. In April 2023, Governor Jay Inslee signed SB5087 which formally abolished capital punishment in Washington State and removed provisions for capital punishment from state law.
Capital punishment was abolished via the legislative process on May 2, 2013, in the U.S. state of Maryland.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Nebraska. In 2015, the state legislature voted to repeal the death penalty, overriding governor Pete Ricketts' veto. However, a petition drive secured enough signatures to suspend the repeal until a public vote. In the November 2016 general election, voters rejected the repeal measure, preserving capital punishment in the state. Nebraska currently has 12 inmates on death row.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
Capital punishment was abolished in Virginia on March 24, 2021, when Governor Ralph Northam signed a bill into law. The law took effect on July 1, 2021. Virginia is the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, and the first southern state in United States history to do so.
Capital punishment in Connecticut formerly existed as an available sanction for a criminal defendant upon conviction for the commission of a capital offense. Since the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia until Connecticut repealed capital punishment in 2012, Connecticut had only executed one person, Michael Bruce Ross in 2005. Initially, the 2012 law allowed executions to proceed for those still on death row and convicted under the previous law, but on August 13, 2015, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that applying the death penalty only for past cases was unconstitutional.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arizona. After the execution of Joseph Wood in 2014, executions were temporarily suspended but resumed in 2022. On January 23, 2023, newly inaugurated governor Katie Hobbs ordered a review of death penalty protocols and in light of that, newly inaugurated attorney general Kris Mayes issued a hold on any executions in the state.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Montana.
The execution of Robert Van Hook occurred on July 18, 2018, at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. Van Hook was executed via lethal injection for the 1985 murder of 25-year-old David Self. His case achieved notoriety because of his failed gay panic defense. Ultimately, his conviction was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and Governor John Kasich of Ohio rejected his bids for clemency.
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