CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -A new bipartisan state bill about to be introduced would end the death penalty in Ohio. Lawmakers who support the measure call it “inhumane and impractical.” ...

Ohio Statehouse leaders are grappling with the latest mass shooting, in New Albany, with the House Speaker expressing ...

Ohio lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree: incidents like the shooting in New Albany are a tragedy, but whether anything will be done to change laws still does ...

Day two of the capital murder trial of a man accused of setting a woman on fire in 2023 in Butler County is underway.

Opening statements in the capital murder trial of a man accused of setting a woman on fire in 2023 in Butler County began ...

Alabama became the first state to carry out executions with nitrogen gas when three inmates were put to death using the ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the year in the nation.

The former Trump defense lawyer and Florida attorney general issues a raft of new orders, undoing a broad array of Biden ...

In a flurry of executive actions, the president has made moves on everything from gender ideology to the death penalty, with ...

On any given night, about 16,500 people are held in Ohio's 89 jails and jailers book about 300,000 people each year - though ...

Between 2020 and 2023, at least 219 people died in custody of Ohio's 89 full-service jails, including four in Richland County ...