10, 2017, to July 26, 2017. Following the approval of Ohio's lethal injection protocol four weeks prior to the execution date, Phillips' attorneys filed a flurry of appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States, all of which were denied. Governor Kasich also refused to call off the execution, following a unanimous recommendation against clemency by the Ohio Parole Board. A day before his execution, he had a last meal of a large cheese, bell pepper, and mushroom pizza, strawberry cheesecake, a piece of unleavened bread, a Pepsi, and grape juice. He reportedly used the unleavened bread and grape juice for the sake of a makeshift communion shortly before his execution. Ronald Phillips was pronounced dead at 10:43 a.m. on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, ending a 3-and-a-half year hiatus on executions in Ohio. See also Capital punishment in Ohio Capital punishment in the United States List of people executed in Ohio List of people executed in the United States in 2017 References 1973 births 2017 deaths 1993 murders in the United States 21st-century executions by Ohio American murderers of children American people executed for murder American rapists People convicted of murder by Ohio People executed by Ohio by lethal injection