Gov. Mike DeWine says there won鈥檛 be any executions in Ohio in the near future.
DeWine told reporters at an Ohio Associated Press event that a federal court has ruled Ohio鈥檚 existing lethan injection drugs are cruel and unusual punishment. That's why he delayed the execution of Wayne Keith Henness weeks ago.
And now DeWine says he has put executions on hold indefinitely.
鈥淥hio is not going to execute somebody on my watch when Ohio has found it to be cruel and unusual punishment," DeWine says.
DeWine says he鈥檚 asked the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to come up with different execution drugs. And once the department does that, he says the method will have to undergo legal challenges.
Only after that, he says, will executions resume in Ohio.
