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Three Ohio death row inmates will not be executed this year as planned.
Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday issued a reprieve for Timothy Hoffner, John David Stumpf and Lawrence Landrum, saying he’s postponing the executions due to ongoing problems with getting the supply of drugs used for lethal injections.
Hoffner was scheduled to be executed on Aug. 11, 2021, but it has been moved to June 18, 2024. He was convicted of murdering his roommate in Toledo in 1993.
Stumpf, was convicted of murdering a woman in Guernsey County in 1984 and scheduled to be executed on Sept. 15, 2021. His new date of execution is Aug. 13, 2024.
Landrum was sentenced to death for murdering a man in 1985. He was scheduled to be executed on Dec. 9, 2021, but that has been moved to Oct. 15, 2024.
In December, DeWine said Ohio lawmakers would need to soon choose a method of capital punishment other than lethal injection before any executions can be carried out in the future.
“Lethal injection appears to us to be impossible from a practical point of view today,” DeWine told the AP late last year, as execution drugs became increasingly difficult to obtain.
Since taking office, DeWine has delayed every scheduled executionfor a death row inmate.
A bipartisan bill was introduced in 2020 to abolish capital punishment and replace it with life without parole, but SB 296 never got a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Ohio's last execution was in July 2018.
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