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Since taking office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine has had an unofficial moratorium on executions.

“We’ve not had any executions since I’ve been governor. We will not as long as I’m governor,” DeWine said last year.

Ohio has 113 convicted murderers (112 men and one woman) on Death Row, and some have had their execution date postponed by the governor as many as five times.

It’s become far more difficult to obtain the drugs used in lethal injections, the state’s only authorized execution method. Yet huge amounts of taxpayer dollars are still being spent on litigating death-penalty cases.

What’s next? DeWine promises to share more of his thoughts on the death penalty in

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