(6-21-25) Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has issued new reprieves for three death row inmates, further extending Ohio’s unofficial moratorium on executions that began when he took office in January 2019.

The following inmates were scheduled to be executed within the next seven months and were issued reprieves:

Coleman, Bryan and Jackson

  • Timothy Coleman, who was scheduled to be executed on Oct. 30, 2025. The new date of execution has been moved to Sept. 13, 2028.
  • Kareem Jackson, who was scheduled to be executed on Dec. 10, 2025. The new date of execution has been moved to Oct. 11, 2028.
  • Quisi Bryan, who was scheduled to be executed on Jan. 7, 2026. The new date of execution has been moved to Nov. 15, 2028.

Coleman was convicted out of Clark County in the 1996 shooting of an informant for the Springfield Police Department.

Jackson was convicted of two murders out of Franklin County and sentenced to death in 1997.

Bryan was convicted in Cuyahoga County after he was convicted of murdering a Cleveland police officer in 2000.

DeWine issued the 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.”

Ohio joins 15 other states that have not carried out any executions in the past five years. The last person executed in Ohio was Robert J. Van Hook in July 2018, during the administration of former Governor John Kasich.

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