Lucasville News

COLUMBUS a ' The state parole board next week will hear arguments on whether to commute the death sentence of a Trumbull County man convicted in a brutal 1991 murder.

The race for three openings on the Zane Trace Local Schools Board of Education has seven candidates, including two brothers.

Ohio was on track this year to execute a record number of inmates. One botched execution and several lawsuits later, the death penalty is temporarily on hold there.

Randy Davidson, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, harassment by bodily substance, defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine months' prison sentence concurrent to present sentence and court costs.

In 1999, inmates could choose death on the then-new lethal-injection bed or in the electric chair inside the death house at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

There's good news for people who heat their homes with natural gas, fuel oil and propane.

Ohio prison officials are considering a major overhaul of death-penalty procedures that might include changing out such key elements as drugs and an execution team.

UNION TWP. - The two lawyers who prosecuted Liz and David Carroll Jr. for the murder of their 3-year-old foster child, Marcus Fiesel, will talk about their trial tactics during that and other high-profile cases at a legal seminar this month.

A TANKER TRUCK PARKED BEHIND CHEROKEE HALL IN LUCASVILLE WAS THE SCENE OF A THEFT AND HAZARDOUS LEAK.

Emergency response officials responded Wednesday morning when anhydrous ammonia was leaked from a tank parked off of U.S. 23 north.

Gov. Ted Strickland hasn't formally launched his re-election campaign yet, but his campaign Web site is up and e-mails are going out from "the Strickland for Governor campaign team" promoting the governor's annual birthday event Saturday in Lucasville.

An amonia leak near the Lucasville Bottoms area in Scioto county prompted authorities to issue a shelter in place Wednesday morning.

While American courts have clearly held that the death penalty is constitutional, a lawyer in Ohio plans to file suit on Friday arguing that the state only gets one shot at putting someone to death.

Hippocrates famously wrote that doctors should "do no harm," but physicians are among those being consulted by Ohio prison officials as they look for a method to successfully put Romell Broom to death.

An undated file photograph of Romell Brown. On Tuesday, the execution of a man convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl 25 years ago was halted after prison officials in Lucasville, Ohio, were unable to find a usable vein to administer a lethal injection.

A Lucasville man has been convicted on a multitude of charges and sentenced by Judge William T. Marshall to 21 years in prison.

Death row inmate Romell Broom made no requests for his special meal and no family members were expected to visit him Monday -- the day before his scheduled execution.

Groups, organizations, companies and individuals turned out Saturday for the Countywide Cleanup Day.

A teenager is dead after a two-vehicle crash on SR 32 at SR 220 in Pike County, Saturday morning.

The death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville. Sept. 11, 2009 In the last several weeks, two major events have reignited the controversy that engulfs capital adjudication in this country.