Ohio DP history

Latest ruling is not expected to immediately effect Ohio executions.

STAFF/WIRE REPORT

CINCINNATI - A federal appeals court has declined to review how long death row inmates have to file appeals that challenge Ohio's use of lethal injection to carry out executions.

The decision could effect the case of Kenneth Biros of Trumbull County who faces the death penalty.

The database contains the information provided in the case history portion of the Capital Crimes Annual Report. The annual report includes the status of each case at the end of the previous calendar year. The information is current through December 31, 2005, and where appropriate current through the publication date of this report. This allows you access to more recent information; however, we cannot guarantee that the information you will see is up to the minute. To verify the information you see here, call the Capital Crimes Section at (614) 728-7055.

You will see the listing of inmates in alphabetical order. You can sort by each column, and click an inmate's name to be taken to the corresponding page of detail information.

Clemency Reports made in the cases of Ohio Death Row inmates.

On February 28, 2005, Ohio Common Pleas Judge Richard Niehaus dismissed all charges against Derrick Jamison for the death of a Cincinnati bartender after prosecutors elected not to retry him in the case. (Associated Press, March 3, 2005). The prosecution had withheld critical eyewitness statements and other evidence from the defense resulting in the overturning of Jamison's conviction in 2002. Jamison was convicted and sentenced to death in 1985 based in part on the testimony of Charles Howell, a co-defendant who had his own sentence reduced in exchange for his testimony against Jamison.