List of individuals executed in Ohio
This is a list of individuals executed in Ohio since 1999.[1]
All of the following individuals have been executed for murder since the Furman decision. All 53 were executed by lethal injection. Notable persons executed in Ohio before the Furman decision include Anna Marie Hahn. Currently 23 inmates are scheduled for execution with the first four, being pedophile murderer Ronald Phillips, Double murderer Raymond Tibbet, Robber/ double murderer Gary Otte and a man who murdered a teenager during a courtroom escape Alva Campbell.
| Name | Date of Execution | Victim | Governor | The murder | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wilford Berry, Jr. | February 19, 1999 | Charles Mitroff | Bob Taft | Berry murdered his new boss Mitroff when he returned from his delivery run in his bakery. He was shot three times and dumped in a shallow grave. |
| 2 | Jay D. Scott | June 14, 2001 | Vinnie M. Price | Scott shot Price to death while she was serving him in the delicatessen she owned. Scott intended to rob the shop and did not want any witnesses to identify him. He also murdered a security guard but was only sentenced to death for Price's murder. | |
| 3 | John William Byrd, Jr. | February 19, 2002 | Monte Tewksbury | Byrd murdered Tewksbury while robbing his shop. Byrd stabbed Tewksbury to death while he was working alone and stole £133 from the shop. | |
| 4 | Alton Coleman | April 26, 2002 | Tonnie Storey Marlene Walters (sentenced to death in Indiana and Illinois) |
Coleman strangled Storey to death while he was raping her. She was on her route to computer class when she was murdered. This murder sparked a killing spree that resulted in the loss of 8 lives and three death sentences | |
| 5 | Robert Anthony Buell | September 24, 2002 | Krista Harrison | Buell abducted Harrison while she was collecting cans with a boy. He then took her back to his home where he raped her and strangled her to death. | |
| 6 | Richard Edwin Fox | February 12, 2003 | Leslie Renae Keckler | Fox lured Keckler into his car under the pretext that she was showing her his sales. After she rejected his sexual advances he stabbed her six times and then drove to a secluded areas and strangled her. | |
| 7 | David M. Brewer | April 29, 2003 | Sherry Byrne | Brewer lured Bryne the wife of his fraternity brother into a motel under the pretense of selling radio parts. He then raped her and dragged her to the trunk of his car where he stabbed Byrne 15 times. | |
| 8 | Ernest Martin | June 18, 2003 | Robert Robinson | Martin was planning to rob Robinson. The plan was that his girlfriend would ask for medicine and he would let her in. The plan backfired and Robinson closed the door before Martin could gain entry angered by this he shot two shots into the door and one of them killed Robinson. | |
| 9 | Lewis Williams, Jr. | January 14, 2004 | Leoma Chmielewski | Williams broke into the home of Chmielewski and ransacked it. He beat her and stomped on her chest during the robbery and then killed her by shooting her close range. | |
| 10 | John Glenn Roe | February 3, 2004 | Donette Crawford | Roe kidnapped Crawford at gunpoint and instructed her to give him his money and her car. Nervous that she might testify he shot her to death. | |
| 11 | William Dean Wickline | March 30, 2004 | Peggy Lerch Christopher Lerch |
Wickline was drinking when he got into an argument with Christopher Lerch over £6000 owed to Wickline. Wickline strangled Chris and his wife Peggy and cut up their bodies. The couples' bodies were never found. | |
| 12 | William G. Zuern, Jr. | June 8, 2004 | Hamilton County Deputy Sheriff Phillip Pence | Zuern was awaiting trial for another murder when he got mad about how restrictive his prison was. He carved a knife out of a piece of metal and he stabbed officer Pence with it. | |
| 13 | Stephen Allan Vrabel | July 14, 2004 | Susan Clemente Lisa Clemente |
Vrabel brought a new gun and murdered his live in girlfriend and then because he thought she was better off dead than with a dead mom and a dad in prison he shot Clemente his 3-year-old daughter. | |
| 14 | Scott Andrew Mink | July 20, 2004 | William Mink Sheila Mink |
Mink intended to buy drugs but his parents hid his car keys. Angered he went into their bedroom and beat them with a hammer until it bole and the stabbed them with a knife eight times each. | |
| 15 | Adremy Dennis | October 13, 2004 | Kurt Kyle | Dennis was intending to rob Kyle. He pointed his gun at Kyle and ordered him to give him his money. Kyle searched his pockets but found he had no money on him Dennis responded by shooting him at point blank range in the head. | |
| 16 | William Smith | March 8, 2005 | Mary Bradford | Smith was taking cocaine and having a one-night stand with Bradford. When he noticed cocaine missing he thought Bradford took it. She denied this but Smith stabbed her eight times and had sex with her dead body. | |
| 17 | Herman Dale Ashworth | September 27, 2005 | Daniel L. Baker | Ashworth was having a drink with Baker outside of a bar. Ashworth intended to rob Baker and kill him to avoid witnesses. He robbed £40 off of him and then beat him with a board so badly that his injuries were consistent with a high speed traffic accident. | |
| 18 | William James "Flip" Williams, Jr. | October 25, 2005 | William Dent Alfonda R. Madison, Sr. Eric Howard and Theodore Wynn, Jr. |
Williams returned after a jail sentence to his home town only to discover that the victims control the drug market he once owned. He decided to recruit child soldiers to help kill the victims. He lured the victims to Madison's house and shot them once in the head. | |
| 19 | John R. Hicks | November 29, 2005 | Brandy Green & Maxine Armstrong | Hicks was on a cocaine binge when he decided to rob his mother in law Maxine Armstrong for cocaine money. He decided to strangle her so he would not be caught. While fleeing he knew her daughter Brandy would be a witness so he returned to Armstrong's and smothered her with a pillow. | |
| 20 | Glenn Lee Benner II | February 7, 2006 | Trina Bowser Cynthia Sedgwick |
Benner abducted Bowser and raped her. He then strangled her to death to avoid her testifying against him. Six months earlier he abducted Cynthia Sedgwick from a concert and strangled her to death in the same manner as Bowser. | |
| 21 | Joseph Lewis Clark | May 2, 2006 | David A. Manning Donald B. Harris |
Clark was addicted to drugs and in order to pay for his habit he would rob stores. One day Clark robbed the store where Harris worked and during the robbery shot him. Unfazed by his actions the next day he robbed again. Manning worked at a service station as a clerk. Joseph barged in and demanded £60. Manning did what Clark said but was shot in the chest. Clark fled with the money. | |
| 22 | Rocky Barton | July 12, 2006 | Kimbirli Jo Barton | ||
| 23 | Darrell Wayne Ferguson | August 8, 2006 | Thomas King Arlie Fugate Mae Fugate | ||
| 24 | Jeffrey Lundgren | October 24, 2006 | Dennis Avery Cheryl Avery Trina Avery Rebecca Avery Karen Avery | ||
| 25 | James J. Filiaggi | April 24, 2007 | Lisa Huff Filiaggi | Ted Strickland | |
| 26 | Christopher Newton | May 24, 2007 | Jason Brewer | ||
| 27 | Richard Cooey | October 14, 2008 | Wendy Offredo Dawn McCreery | ||
| 28 | Gregory Bryant-Bey | November 19, 2008 | Dale Pinkelman Pete Mihas | ||
| 29 | Daniel E. Wilson | June 3, 2009 | Carol Lutz | ||
| 30 | John Joseph Fautenberry | July 14, 2009 | Joseph Daron Jr. Jefferson Difee Gary Farmer Christine Guthrie Donald Nutley | ||
| 31 | Marvallous Keene | July 21, 2009 | Sarah Abraham Wendy Cottrill Danita Gullette Marvin Washington Joseph Wilkerson | ||
| 32 | Jason Getsy | August 18, 2009 | Ann Serafino | ||
| 33 | Kenneth Biros | December 8, 2009 | Tami Engstrom | ||
| 34 | Vernon Lamont Smith | January 7, 2010 | Sohail Darwish | ||
| 35 | Mark Aaron Brown | February 4, 2010 | Hayder Al-Turk Isam Salman | ||
| 36 | Lawrence Raymond Reynolds | March 16, 2010 | Loretta Foster | ||
| 37 | Darryl M. Durr | April 20, 2010 | Angel Vincent | ||
| 38 | Michael Francis Beuke | May 13, 2010 | Robert Craig | ||
| 39 | William Garner | July 13, 2010 | Deondra Freeman Richard Gaines Markeca Mason Mykkila Mason Denitra Satterwhite | ||
| 40 | Roderick Davie | August 10, 2010 | John Ira Coleman Tracey Jeffreys | ||
| 41 | Michael W. Benge | October 6, 2010 | Judith Gabbard | ||
| 42 | Frank G. Spisak, Jr. | February 17, 2011 | Rev. Horace Rickerson Brian Warford Timothy Sheehan |
John Kasich | |
| 43 | Johnnie Ray Baston | March 10, 2011 | Chong-Hoon Mah | ||
| 44 | Clarence Carter | April 12, 2011 | Johnny Allen | ||
| 45 | Daniel Lee Bedford | May 17, 2011 | Gwen Toepfert John Smith | ||
| 46 | Reginald Brooks, Sr. | November 15, 2011 | Reginald Brooks, Jr. Vaughn Brooks Niarchos Brooks | ||
| 47 | Mark Wayne Wiles | April 18, 2012 | Mark Klima | ||
| 48 | Donald Palmer | September 20, 2012 | Charles Sponhaltz Steven Vargo | ||
| 49 | Brett Xavier Hartman | November 13, 2012 | Winda Snipes | ||
| 50 | Frederick Treesh | March 6, 2013 | Henry Dupree | ||
| 51 | Steven T. Smith | May 1, 2013 | Autumn Carter | ||
| 52 | Harry D. Mitts, Jr. | September 25, 2013 | John Bryant Sgt. Dennis Glivar Garfield Heights, Ohio police | ||
| 53 | Dennis B. McGuire | January 16, 2014 | Joy Stewart |
Demographics
The demographic information on the 34 inmates executed in Ohio between February 19, 1999, and January 7, 2010, is as follows:
- Mean Age at Time of Execution: 44 years, 1.9 months
- Mean Time from Death Sentence to Execution: 14 years, 6 months
- Median Time from Death Sentence to Execution: 15 years, 11 months and also were all killed
See also
Notes
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