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Ohio executions at a standstill
Laura A. Bischoff - Springfield News-Sun, Ohio
Forty years after Ohio adopted its current death penalty law, 336 people have been sentenced to death and 56 executions have been carried out but the system is at a standstill now as Ohio is unable to acquire the lethal injection drugs.
Since Ohio passed the capital punishment law in 1981, one of every six death sentences has been carried out, according to a newly released report by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. During that time, 21 people have had their sentences commuted, 33 died of natural causes or suicide, and eight were removed from Death Row because they were found intellectually disabled.