After James Filiaggi is executed, who will be next to die from Ohio's death row?

According to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, the state has made Mansfield home to 188 men and one woman.

All of the people on death row were found guilty of aggravated murder. The men were taken to the Mansfield Correctional Institution. Female death row inmates are housed at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. Executions take place at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

According to the Ohioans to Stop Executions Web site, Christopher Newton is the next man scheduled to die in Ohio. His execution date was set for May. 24.

John Spirko, 59, is set to die Sept. 18. He was convicted in the 1982 slaying of Betty Jane Mottinger, who was abducted from her job at the post office and stabbed to death.

An Ohio judge has issued a temporary stay of execution for Jeffery Hill, due to a lawsuit that claims Ohio's method of execution by injection is cruel and unusual. Hill was convicted of the 1991 murder of his mother, Emma Hill, while he was high on crack cocaine.

And there are many more inmates waiting to die.

You can send a letter for or against a death-row inmate by writing to Ohio's governor.

Gov. Ted Strickland
Riffe Center
77 South High St.
Columbus, OH 43215