Gov. Mike DeWine grants execution reprieve to Quisi Bryan who was convicted of killing Cleveland police officer

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Cleveland man who shot and killed a Cleveland patrol officer in 2000 will stay on dying row for an additional three years, underneath a reprieve of execution issued Friday by Gov. Mike DeWine.

Quisi Bryan, 51, now’s scheduled to be executed on Jan. 7, 2026. He had been scheduled to be executed in October till DeWine issued the reprieve on Friday.

A information launch from the governor’s workplace saying the reprieve cited the state’s continued hassle acquiring medication wanted to carry out deadly injections, the state’s authorized methodology of execution. DeWine repeatedly has postponed executions since taking workplace in January 2019 and has known as on state lawmakers to provide you with an alternate methodology whereas strongly suggesting he opposes the dying penalty.

State lawmakers in the meantime have taken no motion to deal with the problem, leaving the state’s dying penalty in a type of authorized purgatory.

Bryan is on dying row for for fatally taking pictures Leon within the face on June 25, 2000, after the officer pulled him over for a visitors violation within the metropolis’s Central neighborhood. Leon died immediately and Bryan was finally captured in Columbus.

He is also serving jail time for 4 separate sexual assault circumstances that occurred earlier than his arrest in Leon’s killing. He was convicted after a state initiative to check outdated, unexamined rape children sitting in police proof matched matched his DNA.