Law enforcement in Akron, Ohio, are searching for a prisoner who escaped custody early Tuesday while being transported to a doctor's appointment. The Summit County Sheriff's Office issued an alert ...

Authorities have released the identity of the inmate who is being accused of attacking and killing an Ohio veteran corrections officer on Christmas Day. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Of the more than 43,750 inmates in Ohio’s prison system last year, 70% were classified as violent offenders. A review of Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction reports and ...

While it remains unlikely executions will resume in Ohio with Gov. Mike DeWine in office, the death penalty has received new attention following Tuesday's execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri.

Ohio Man Who Spent Decades on Death Row for Murder Has His Case Dismissed CINCINNATI (AP) — A man who spent more than a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a woman at an Ohio ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court has delayed the execution of an inmate sentenced to die in the slayings of fellow inmates during a 1993 prison riot for three years. Keith LaMar was convicted ...

An Ohio prison inmate who has spent nearly four decades on death row in the murder of a convenience store clerk has been resentenced to a term that could allow his release on parole. Lucas County ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -Ohio’s next execution of a death row inmate was originally on the calendar for exactly three months from now on November 16. But that date, like so many others, was recently ...

ROSS COUNTY — An inmate has been formally charged in connection with the death of an Ohio correctional officer on Christmas Day. A grand jury indicted Rashawn Cannon Friday on two counts of aggravated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While it remains unlikely executions will resume in Ohio with Gov. Mike DeWine in office, the death penalty has received new ...