Herman Dale Ashworth (February 26, 1973 – September 27, 2005) was a murderer executed by the U.S. state of Ohio. He admitted to the aggravated murder and aggravated robbery in the death of Daniel L. Baker on September 10, 1996. He was executed by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility after spending 8 years, three months, and 11 days on death row. Baker's body was later found at 3:45 a.m. by a couple walking a dog. Thirty minutes later, Ashworth made an anonymous 9-1-1 call to inform police of the beating. The call was traced and Ashworth was arrested.