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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. [1] The last execution in the state was in July 2018, when Robert J. Van Hook was executed via lethal injection for murder.
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]
Victims. David Lyman Self, 25. Date. February 18, 1985. 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. [2]
Capital punishment hangs in an awkward state of limbo in Ohio these days. Yes, the death penalty remains on the books, and, yes, 122 men and one woman await their fate on death row.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, center, talks about reviving the death penalty in Ohio with a new method. Rep. Brian Stewart, R-Ashville, right, is a co-sponsor of the bill.
Criminal penalty. Death sentence. David M. Brewer (April 22, 1959 – April 29, 2003) was the seventh person executed by the state of Ohio since it reinstated the death penalty in 1981. Brewer died by lethal injection on April 29, 2003, after spending 17 years and six months on death row. He was convicted of the 1985 murder of 21-year-old ...
Lockett v. Ohio. Lockett v. Ohio. State v. Lockett, 49 Ohio St. 2d 48, 358 N.E.2d 1062 (1976); cert. granted, 434 U.S. 889 (1977). The Ohio statute violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments in failing to require consideration of all mitigating factors surrounding the accused murderer before coming to the decision to apply the death penalty.
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