An Ohio man was freed from prison last week after spending nearly 30 years on death row. The prosecuting attorney in Hamilton ...

Gov. Mike DeWine plans to announce his personal stance on capital punishment next month. Why it matters: For a governor who ...

This month, an Ohio family will gather for their fifth holiday season without Casey Goodson. The 23-year-old was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy while trying to enter his home on Dec. 4, 2020, in ...

Elwood Jones was exonerated from Ohio's death row after Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillich dismissed the case against ...

A final settlement was approved this week in a wrongful death suit filed by a groom who lost his bride in a 2023 DUI golf cart crash.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is poised on Thursday to reject legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits for ...

Domonique McGeachy, 38, and Jerel McGeachy Jr., 12, were killed in a murder-suicide at their home in Kansas City’s Northland last year.

While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year ...

A lawyer representing the Brown sisters and their mother said their grief was “compounded by this putative heir all of a sudden showing up and demanding money ...

A coalition of more than 50 organizations cite declining public support for the death penalty while Ohio lawmakers debate using a new execution method.

Ryan Kiess, of Manhasset, was a volunteer firefighter, a skilled viola player, the captain of his high school hockey team and a University of Scranton graduate, where he played Division III lacrosse.

An Ohio grandmother passionate about rehabilitating deer was mauled to death by an animal she helped rescue. Jodi Proger, 64, who spent 12 years rehabilitating whitetail deer on her five-acre ...