Racial and Geographic Disparities in Ohio Executions

1. Ohio has executed the most people in the past two years in the United States, except Texas.

2. Since 1999, Ohio has executed 38 people.

3. In the South, race seems to play a role in who is executed.

4. In 75% of execution cases, the murder victims were white.

5. In Ohio, about 65% of murder victims are black, however, a considerably smaller amount of those cases result in executions.

6. Out of 57 victims in cases resulting in an execution, only 11 were black.

7. None of the 38 executions there had a white defedant who murdered a black victim.

8. 7 black defendants have been executed after murdering a white person.

9. Another thing that plays a role in Ohio's executions is geography.

10. The main places the death penalty has been implemented in Ohio are only 3 counties: Hamilton, Cuyahoga, and Summit- only 23.4% of the states population.