Thomas Creech was already serving a life term when he beat another prisoner, 22-year-old David Dale Jensen, to death in 1981 - a crime for which he was to be executed

Roberson said he was placing his hopes for another execution stay in the hands of his lawyers, his supporters and God.

The application of Ohio's death penalty varies significantly by county, influenced by the views of elected prosecutors. Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties have historically sent the most people to death row. A 2014 task force recommended state oversight for ...

Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with serious mental illnesses from being executed. Nine people have been removed from death row, with 25 cases still pending. Some death row inmates have sought to drop their mental-illness appeals, raising ...