List of people executed in Ohio explained

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] However, any future execution will no longer be performed using this method, due to a ruling by Governor Mike DeWine in December 2020.^[3] Notable persons executed in Ohio before the Gregg decision include Anna Marie Hahn.

List of people executed in Ohio since 1976

	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1		White	36	M	February 19, 1999	Cuyahoga	Lethal injection	Charles Mitroff	Bob Taft
2		Black	48	M	June 14, 2001			Vinnie M. Price
3		White	38	M	February 19, 2002	Hamilton		Monte Tewksbury
4		Black	46	M	April 26, 2002			Tonnie Storey and Marlene Walters
5		White	62	M	September 25, 2002	Wayne		Krista Harrison
6		White	47	M	February 12, 2003	Wood		Leslie Renae Keckler
7		White	44	M	April 29, 2003	Greene		Sherry Byrne
8		Black	42	M	June 18, 2003	Cuyahoga		Robert Robinson
9		Black	45	M	January 14, 2004			Leoma Chmielewski
10		White	41	M	February 3, 2004	Franklin		Donette Crawford
11		White	52	M	March 30, 2004			Peggy Lerch and Christopher Lerch
12		White	45	M	June 8, 2004	Hamilton		Hamilton County Deputy Sheriff Phillip Pence
13		White	47	M	July 14, 2004	Mahoning		Susan Clemente and Lisa Clemente
14		White	40	M	July 20, 2004	Montgomery		William Mink and Sheila Mink
15		Black	28	M	October 13, 2004	Summit		Kurt Kyle
16		Black	47	M	March 8, 2005	Hamilton		Mary Bradford
17		White	32	M	September 27, 2005	Licking		Daniel L. Baker
18		Black	48	M	October 25, 2005	Summit		4 murder victims
19		Black	49	M	November 29, 2005	Hamilton		Brandy Green and Maxine Armstrong
20		White	43	M	February 7, 2006	Summit		Trina Bowser and Cynthia Sedgwick
21		Black	57	M	May 2, 2006	Lucas		David A. Manning and Donald B. Harris
22		White	49	M	July 12, 2006	Warren		Kimbirli Jo Barton
23		White	28	M	August 8, 2006	Montgomery		Thomas King, Arlie Fugate, and Mae Fugate
24		White	56	M	October 24, 2006	Lake		5 murder victims
25		White	41	M	April 24, 2007	Lorain		Lisa Huff Filiaggi	Ted Strickland
26		White	37	M	May 24, 2007	Richland		Jason Brewer
27		White	41	M	October 14, 2008	Summit		Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery
28		Black	53	M	November 19, 2008			Dale Pinkelman and Pete Mihas
29		White	39	M	June 3, 2009	Lorain		Carol Lutz
30		White	46	M	July 14, 2009	Hamilton		5 murder victims
31	^[4]	Black	36	M	July 21, 2009	Montgomery		6 murder victims
32		White	33	M	August 18, 2009	Trumbull		Ann Serafino
33		White	51	M	December 8, 2009			Tami Engstrom
34		Black	37	M	January 7, 2010	Lucas		Sohail Darwish
35		Black	37	M	February 4, 2010	Mahoning		Hayder Al-Turk and Isam Salman
36		White	43	M	March 16, 2010	Summit		Loretta Foster
37		Black	46	M	April 20, 2010	Cuyahoga		Angel Vincent
38		White	48	M	May 13, 2010	Hamilton		Robert Craig
39		Black	37	M	July 13, 2010			5 murder victims
40		Black	38	M	August 10, 2010	Trumbull		John Ira Coleman and Tracey Jeffreys
41		White	49	M	October 6, 2010	Butler		Judith Gabbard
42		White	59	M	February 17, 2011	Cuyahoga		Rev. Horace Rickerson, Brian Warford, and Timothy Sheehan	John Kasich
43		Black	37	M	March 10, 2011	Lucas		Chong-Hoon Mah
44		Black	49	M	April 12, 2011	Hamilton		Johnny Allen
45		White	63	M	May 17, 2011			Gwen Toepfert and John Smith
46		Black	66	M	November 15, 2011	Cuyahoga		Reginald Brooks Jr., Vaughn Brooks, and Niarchos Brooks
47		White	49	M	April 18, 2012	Portage		Mark Klima
48		White	47	M	September 20, 2012	Belmont		Charles Sponhaltz and Steven Vargo
49		White	38	M	November 13, 2012	Summit		Winda Snipes
50		White	48	M	March 6, 2013	Lake		Henry Dupree
51		White	46	M	May 1, 2013	Richland		Autumn Carter
52		White	61	M	September 25, 2013	Cuyahoga		John Bryant and Garfield Heights, Ohio police Sgt. Dennis Glivar
53		White	53	M	January 16, 2014	Preble		Joy Stewart
54		White	43	M	July 26, 2017	Summit		Sheila Marie Evans
55		White	45	M	September 13, 2017	Cuyahoga		Robert Wasikowski and Sharon Kostura
56		White	58	M	July 18, 2018	Hamilton		David Self

Demographics

Race
White	37	66%
Black	19	34%
Age
20–29	2	4%
30–39	13	23%
40–49	29	52%
50–59	8	14%
60–69	4	7%
Sex
Male	56	100%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	0	0%
1990–1999	1	2%
2000–2009	32	57%
2010–2019	23	41%
2020–2029	0	0%
Method
Lethal injection	56	100%
Governor (Party)
	0	0%
	0	0%
	0	0%
	0	0%
Bob Taft (R)	24	43%
Ted Strickland (D)	17	30%
	15	27%
	0	0%
Total	56	100%

See also

• Capital punishment in Ohio
• Capital punishment in the United States

Notes and References

1. Web site: Executions 1999-Present. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction. May 17, 2019.
2. Web site: Searchable Execution Database. Death Penalty Information Center. May 17, 2019.
3. News: Ohio governor: Lethal injection no longer execution option. Associated Press. December 8, 2020.
4. News: 29 years after southwest Ohio Christmas murder spree: 'It will never be forgotten. Powell. Lisa; Grimes, Becky. Journal-News. April 10, 2022.