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

• Capital punishment in Ohio
• Capital punishment in the United States

Notes

1. http://www.drc.ohio.gov/web/executed/executed25.htm