October 21, 2024

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)— Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued the following reprieves of execution:

  • Stanley Adams, who was scheduled to be executed on February 19, 2025.  The new date of execution has been moved to February 16, 2028.
  • John Drummond, who was scheduled to be executed on April 16, 2025.  The new date of execution has been moved to March 15, 2028.
  • James Hanna, who was scheduled to be executed on May 14, 2025. The new date of execution has been moved to April 19, 2028.

Adams, Drummond and Hanna had previously received reprieves of execution in 2021.

Governor DeWine is issuing these reprieves due to 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.

DEATH ROW REASONS

James Hanna, John Drummond, Stanley Adams

Adams has been on death row since 2001. He was convicted in the 1999 double aggravated murder of Esther Cook of Warren and her 12-year-old daughter Ashley Dawn Cook.

Hanna was initially serving life in the Warren County prison for the 1977 stabbing death of a Toledo convenience store clerk

Drummond has been on death row since 2004 when he was convicted in the 2003 drive-by murder of three-month-old Jiyen Dent on Youngstown’s east side. Dent’s father said he was watching a movie while his son was in a baby swing.