Governor Mike DeWine Delays 4 Executions Due to Lack of Drugs

Governor Mike DeWine put on hold four additional executions due to the ongoing lack of drugs to put inmates to death by lethal injection.

Governor DeWine told lawmakers last year that they must choose a different method before capital punishment can be carried out. They did nothing.

Here are the convicts and families affected by the decision.

John Drummond, who shot and killed 3-month-old Jiyen Dent Jr. in 2003, had his execution date changed from April 21, 2022, to April 16, 2025.

The execution date for Warren Henness, sentenced for the 1992 killing of Richard Myers and sentenced out of Franklin County, has been moved from Jan. 12, 2022, to Dec. 17, 2024.

Stanley Adams’ execution date was moved from Feb. 16, 2022, to Feb. 19, 2025. He was convicted of beating Esther Cook to death in 1999, and of raping and strangling her daughter Ashley Cook.

James Hanna, who was sentenced to death outside of Warren County for the 1997 stabbing death of prison cellmate Peter Copas, has had his execution date extended to May 14, 2025.

The Ohio Supreme Court recently set new execution dates for two inmates, both for 2025, in spite of the unofficial moratorium.

In Ohio, the last execution took place on July 18, 2018, when Robert Van Hook was put to death for the 1985 murder of David Self.