Since February of 1999 there have been 56 executions in the state.
There are 119 people in Ohio who have been sentenced to death, including one woman.
Here is a list of those from the Dayton area:
Greene County
David L. Myers
Myers was placed on death row on March 1, 1996, for the murder of Amanda Jo Maher. In 1988, Myers strangled Maher, mother of one and pregnant, then drove a railroad spike through her head near some abandoned railroad tracks in Xenia.
Richard R. Bays
Bays was placed on death row for the Nov. 15, 1993, killing of Charles H. Weaver of Xenia. Bays repeatedly attacked the wheelchair-bound elderly man when he would not give him money for drugs.
Montgomery County
Larry J. Gapen
Gapen was placed on death row in 2001 for the murder of three. Gapen had used an ax to beat his former wife, her companion and her 13-year-old daughter to death in September 2000.
Samuel Moreland
Moreland was sentenced to death for the November 1985 murders of his girlfriend Glenna Green and Green’s daughter Lana Green and Green’s grandchildren Datrin Talbott, Datwan Talbott and Voilana Green. Three other children were beaten and/or shot and left for dead.
Davel V. Chinn
Davel “Tony” Chinn was sentenced to death on Sept. 1, 1989. Chinn and one other had abducted Brian K. Jones in his car from a parking lot in downtown Dayton on Jan. 30, 1989. After arriving in Jefferson Twp., Chinn shot Jones in the shoulder, causing an arterial bleed.
Antonio S. Franklin
Franklin was sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of his uncle and grandparents. At 19, Franklin was the youngest Death Row inmate to be sentenced in Montgomery County at that time.
Duane A. Short
Short was placed on death row for the double murder of his estranged wife and her friend in 2004.
Warren County
Terry L. Froman
Froman was sentenced to death for kidnapping and murdering his ex-girlfriend in September 2014 on Interstate 75 near Middletown after fatally shooting her son in Kentucky. Her son had tried to stop the kidnapping.
Austin G. Myers
Austin Myers, 19, was sentenced on Oct. 6, 2014, for the aggravated murder of a former friend, Justin Black. Myers, with an accomplice, had planned to break in to the victim’s home to steal money and make Black’s disappearance look like a runaway.