Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins penned two separate letters for U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost seeking their help in restoring the death penalty in Ohio.

In his letters, Watkins says the Attorneys General have the opportunity to work with President Trump's administration on issues such as the enforcement of the death penalty.

"In many counties where the victims of crime have been frozen in time without the enforcement of the [death penalty.] We must have a plan of action in Ohio to restore justice and the death penalty for heartless killers as other states and the federal government are doing," Watkins said.

This comes after President Trump lifted a moratorium from the Biden administration on the death penalty in federal cases via an executive order.

Watkins urged the Attorneys General to cooperate with the Office of the Ohio Governor to determine what execution protocol needs to be followed so that the death penalty law can be enforced on convicted inmates with no pending appeals.

Among these inmates are Stanley Adams, who is scheduled to be executed in February of 2028 and Danny Lee Hill, who is scheduled to be executed in July of 2026.

Adams has been on death row since 2001 after being convicted of the double murder of Esther Cook and her daughter Ashley Cook in Warren back in 1999. Investigators say Adams beat and stabbed Esther and raped and strangled her daughter.

Meanwhile Hill has been on death row for nearly 39 years for the 1985 murder of 12-year-old Raymond Fife in Warren. Hill had kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered him on the city's southwest side.