Gov. Mike DeWine said every death in county jails should be investigated by an outside agency, not the sheriffs who run the jails, and Ohio needs to do more work to divert people with mental illness ...

A new lawsuit alleges for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train ...

DeWine's budget proposal would allow schools to collaborate with independent driver training academies to start their own ...

The proposal comes nearly seven years after Governor Mike DeWine called for a pause in executions shortly after taking office ...

The mother of a West Chester boy who drowned behind his home last year is joining an Ohio Missing Persons Group.

Ohio lawmakers plan to introduce a bill that would end the death penalty and prohibit state funding for abortions and ...

Who will be the new lieutenant governor of Ohio? We could be closer to an answer, in what will be a unique process.

Whether the death penalty should be eliminated has been the topic of debate for more than a decade at the Ohio Statehouse and Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio (D-Lakewood) has been ...

The death penalty was reinstated in the state in 1981 ... The time to improve our flawed justice system is now.” Republican ...

Two Miami Valley lawmakers were part of a bipartisan cohort Tuesday touting legislation to prohibit the use of state funds for assisted suicide and abolish the death penalty in Ohio, just a week after ...

Mike DeWine took office in 2019 ... approved by voters in 2023 could throw a wrench in that law. "Abortion, the death penalty and assisted suicide all undermine the commitment to human dignity ...