COLUMBUS, Ohio – Lethal injection is no longer an option for Ohio executions, and lawmakers must choose a different method of capital punishment before any inmates can be put to death in the future, Republican Gov. Ohio has an “unofficial moratorium” on capital punishment, he said. “Lethal injection appears to us to be impossible from a practical point of view today,” the governor said. Shortly after taking office in 2019, DeWine ordered the Ohio prison system to look at alternative lethal injection drugs. ___This story has been updated to correct that the former House speaker discussed reconsidering capital punishment last year, not this year.