A view of the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility pictured on August 29, 2001 in Lucasville, Ohio. Lawmakers are trying a new approach to abolish capital punishment in the state.

A view of the death chamber from the witness room at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility shows an electric chair and gurney August 29, 2001 in Lucasville, Ohio.

Ohio executed three death row inmates using a three-drug combo. But the next person executed in Ohio will likely die by another method. ... firing squad, gas chamber or hanging.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is currently pushing to use nitrogen gas in the state’s death chamber. In March of 2016, Kenny Ray Jr., 32, was inspecting fire extinguishers at TimkenSteel’s ...

HB 262 is a useless proclamation of ill-advised, exclusionary priorities rather than the sweeping policy changes necessary to support Ohio families.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

In this Nov. 2005 file photo, Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room ...

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine postpones the executions of three inmates, including the killer of a Cleveland police officer.

An inmate has been formally charged in connection with the death of an Ohio correctional officer on Christmas Day. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] A grand jury indicted ...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is currently pushing to use nitrogen gas in the state’s death chamber. In March of 2016, Kenny Ray Jr., 32, was inspecting fire extinguishers at TimkenSteel’s ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was sentenced to death for the 1989 killings of his estranged ... in Ohio in 1950, one of seven ... the curtain covering the window to the execution chamber was opened at 10: ...