The Ohio Parole Board has rejected mercy for a man who killed a woman and scattered her body parts and could be the first inmate executed using just one drug.

Ohio on Friday became the first state to adopt a procedure for lethal injections that uses one drug, a method never before tried on U.S. inmates.

Two Republican lawmakers advising Ohio’s Democratic governor on changes to the state’s lethal injection process say it shouldn’t be hard to fix the system.

Ohio is struggling to find medical professionals willing to advise the state on the best way to put condemned inmates to death.

A fourth Ohio inmate has gotten a temporary stay of execution as state officials and defense lawyers continue to examine the state’s lethal injection method.

Ohio is considering using lethal injections into inmates’ bone marrow or muscles as possible alternatives or back-up measures to the traditional intravenous execution procedure.

The state plans an immediate appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of a decision delaying an execution three weeks after problems with a separate lethal injection attempt.

The Ohio Supreme Court says problems with a recent lethal injection aren’t enough to delay next week’s execution of a man who strangled his 67-year-old neighbor.

A death row inmate has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to delay his upcoming execution in light of problems with the state’s last scheduled lethal injection.

A federal judge on Tuesday further delayed an unprecedented second attempt to put a condemned rapist and killer to death by lethal injection.

A condemned killer who faces an unprecedented second attempt at lethal injection is at least temporarily back on death row.

An appeals court that delayed a death-row inmate’s execution scheduled for April has now reversed its decision and lifted a stay. 

While others debate the death penalty and lethal injection, Ohio’s longest-serving executioner provides a personal perspective on carrying out the unwanted job, saying his experience as an emergency medical technician helped him handle the stress.

The intended victim of a murder-for-hire in northeast Ohio survived, but his mother was killed in a 1995 crime that sent the shooter to death row.  Governor Ted Strickland must decide whether to accept the parole board’s recommendation to spare his life.

Ohio executes a man who took part in a 1992 Christmas holiday killing spree that left six people dead and two wounded.