A new report released Monday highlights the dozens of Ohio death penalty cases in which potentially innocent people have been ...

It's a study done by Ohioans to Stop Executions. They dug through thousands of cases, finding 42 that showed innocent people ...

A new report from Ohioans to Stop Executions documents 12 death row exonerations, widespread official misconduct, and 30 ...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's scathing annual report calls the state’s execution moratorium a mockery of justice—and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Attorney General Dave Yost on Tuesday issued his strongest rebuke to date of Ohio’s years-long moratorium on executions, calling it “a mockery of the justice system and of the dead ...

It would be an understatement to say Ohio has had many problems administering capital punishment. Over the last decade, the state granted clemency to 10 people and botched four executions, including ...

Ohio has executed 56 men since 1981 and vacated the convictions of 12 other men. Over the course of five decades, that’s a ...

Seventy years after the state of Texas executed 21-year-old Tommy Lee Walker for a crime he did not commit, Dallas County has formally acknowledged what his family and community always knew: Walker ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida has carried out 19 executions in 2025, raising questions about taxpayer costs, wrongful convictions and execution methods.

For death penalty opponents, the dramatic spike in executions last year was truly horrifying. After several years of no more than 25 executions, there were 47 executions in 2025, nearly double the ...

There are 32 attorneys, investigators and specialists in the Missouri State Public Defender Office dedicated to preventing the wrongful execution of innocent people on death row. The agency spends ...