COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s capital punishment system continues to face significant challenges, with no executions carried out in more than six years, according to the newly released 2024 Capital Crimes Report from Attorney General Dave Yost’s office.
“The only thing that has changed? The killers got a year older,” Yost stated in the report. “There needs to be some real progress – until that happens, Ohio cannot fulfill its promise of justice.”
The annual report, mandated by state law, reveals that since Ohio enacted its death penalty legislation in 1981, 337 individuals have received 342 death sentences. However, only 56 of these sentences—roughly one in six—have been carried out, with the last execution occurring in July 2018.
