04 February 2026 :
January 30, 2026 - Ohio. Governor DeWine postpones 3 more executions.
Mike DeWine announced the reprieves on January 30, citing “ongoing problems involving the willingness of pharmaceutical suppliers to provide drugs to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), pursuant to DRC protocol, without endangering other Ohioans.”
- Gerald Hand – Execution date postponed from June 17, 2026 to April 18, 2029
- Danny Lee Hill – Execution date postponed from July 22, 2026 to July 18, 2029
- Cleveland R. Jackson – Execution date postponed from July 15, 2026 to June 13, 2029.
The state of Ohio’s last execution was in July 2018. As FOX 8 previously reported, DeWine has said he doesn’t expect any executions to take place during the rest of his time in office.
The practice of “postponing executions” was initiated in February 2018 by then-Governor John Kasich, who halted executions in this way after, on 15 November 2017 (see HoC on that date) the planned execution of Alva Campbell had been halted after more than 80 minutes of inserting the needle into a vein. DeWine, white, Republican, took office on 14 January 2019, and already 10 days later issued his first “postponement” measure. Re-elected in 2023, he has postponed about 20 executions during his terms. In several cases the execution of the same prisoner has been re-scheduled, and again postponed (See HoC 19/02/2019, 30/09/2019, 13/12/2019, 03/02/2020, 21/04/2020, 05/06/2020, 04/09/2020, 09/04/2021, 10/09/2021, 18/02/2022, 24/06/2022, 18/10/2024, 19/10/2024, 20/10/2024, 13/02/2025).
https://fox8.com/news/dewine-postpones-executions-for-3-death-row-inmates-including-danny-lee-hill/
