Executions

Upcoming Executions

Last updated on September 16, 2021

(Dates are subject to change as a result of stays and appeals.)

Executions Scheduled for 2021

Month	State	Prisoner
August
11	OH	Timothy Hoffner — REPRIEVED
September
8	TX	John Ramirez — STAYED
15	OH	John Stumpf — REPRIEVED
28	TX	Rick Rhoades
October
5	MO	Ernest Johnson
12	TX	Stephen Barbee
20	OH	James Frazier — DIED ON DEATH ROW
21	AL	Willie B. Smith III
27	TX	Ruben Gutierrez — STAYED
November
3	TX	Fabian Hernandez
10	TX	Kosoul Chanthakoummane
17	TX	Ramiro Gonzales
December
9	OH	Lawrence Landrum — REPRIEVED

Executions Scheduled for 2022

Month	State	Prisoner
January
12	OH	Warren “Keith” Henness — REPRIEVED
February
16	OH	Stanley Adams — REPRIEVED
March
8	TX	Michael Gonzales
16	OH	Romell Broom — DIED ON DEATH ROW
April
21	OH	John Drummond — REPRIEVED
May
18	OH	James Hanna — REPRIEVED
June
22	OH	Percy Hutton
July
20	OH	Austin Myers — DATE REMOVED
20	OH	Douglas Coley
August
24	OH	Cedric Carter
September
14	OH	James Tench — Legally premature death warrant. STAYED
15	OH	Kareem Jackson
October
None
November
None
December
None

Executions Scheduled for 2023

Month	State	Prisoner
January
12	OH	Antonio Franklin
February
15	OH	Stanley Fitzpatrick
March
None
April
19	OH	David Sneed
May
None
June
15	OH	Cleveland Jackson
July
None
August
16	OH	James O’Neal
September
None
October
18	OH	Melvin Bonnell
November
None
December
6	OH	Elwood Jones

Executions Scheduled for 2024

Month	State	Prisoner
January
None
February
15	OH	Gregory Lott
March
None
April
17	OH	Archie Dixon
May
None
June
18	OH	Timothy Hoffner
July
None
August
13	OH	John Stumpf
September
None
October
15	OH	Lawrence Landrum
November
None
December
17	OH	Warren “Keith” Henness

Executions Scheduled for 2025

Month	State	Prisoner
January
None
February
19	OH	Stanley Adams
March
19	OH	Shawn Grate — Legally premature
April
16	OH	John Drummond
May
14	OH	James Hanna
June
None
July
30	OH	Samuel Moreland
August
None
September
None
October
30	OH	Timothy Coleman
November
None
December
None

Stays of Execution 2021

Date of Scheduled Execution	State	Prisoner	Reason for Stay
January
12	Federal	Lisa Montgomery	EXECUTION DATE VACATED by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 24, 2020 because the new execution date was set while a stay of execution was in effect, in violation of the terms of federal execution regulations. On January 1, 2021, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the district court’s order, and full court denied reargument. STAYED by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on January 11, 2021 pending “highly expedited initial hearing en banc of Montgomery’s appeal to resolve our circuit law on the important question of the meaning of ‘implementation of death in the manner prescribed by the law of the State in which the sentence is imposed,’ under the Federal Death Penalty Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3596(a).” (Subject to appeal) STAYED by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on January 11, 2021 to permit consideration of Montgomery’s claim that she is mentally incompetent to be executed. STAY VACATED by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on January 12. STAYED by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on January 12, 2021 to permit appeal on whether the execution notice violated the terms of the trial court’s sentencing order. Stay VACATED by the U.S. Supreme Court near midnight on January 12. EXECUTED January 13, 2021.
13	OH	Cleveland Jackson	REPRIEVED
15	Federal	Dustin Higgs	EXECUTION NOTICE INVALIDATED by U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on December 29, 2020. Original sentencing order requires execution per Maryland procedures, while execution set for Indiana. Court says its lacks authority to modify the sentencing order. (The Department of Justice filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on December 31.) Stay vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court near midnight on January 15. EXECUTED January 16, 2021
20	OH	Dawud E. Spaulding	Legally Premature Warrant STAYED by the Ohio Supreme Court on March 2, 2017 “pending disposition of available state remedies.”
21	TX	Blaine Milam	STAYED by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on January 15, 2021 and remanded to the trial court for consideration of Milam’s claim that he is ineligible for the death penalty because of intellectual disability.
February
4	TN	Oscar Smith	STAY GRANTED by the Tennessee Supreme Court on January 6, 2021 as a result of COVID-19 concerns.
10	TX	Edward Busby	STAY GRANTED by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on February 3, 2021 and remanded to the trial court for consideration of Busby’s claim that he is ineligible for the death penalty because of intellectual disability.
11	AL	Willie B. Smith III	Stay granted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on February 10, 2021 until February 16 to provide the court time to consider a claim Smith raised under the Americans With Disabilities Act. Stay vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court close to midnight Eastern time on February 11, 2021. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION GRANTED by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on February 10, 2021 based on Smith’s claim that Alabama’s refusal to permit his pastor in the execution chamber violates federal religious discrimination law. Application to vacate the injunction DENIED by the U.S. Supreme Court close to midnight Eastern time on February 11, 2021.
12	SC	Brad Sigmon	EXECUTION DATE VACATED by the South Carolina Supreme Court on February 4, 2021 on the grounds that “the execution is currently impossible” because the Department of Corrections “will not be able to obtain the required drugs prior to the scheduled date of execution.”
18	OH	James O’Neal	REPRIEVED
March
4	TX	Ramiro Ibarra	STAY GRANTED by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on February 24, 2021 and remanded to the trial court for consideration of Ibarra’s claims that he is ineligible for the death penalty because of intellectual disability and that new DNA science shows that the evidence used to convict him was unreliable.
18	OH	Melvin Bonnell	REPRIEVED
24	OH	Steven E. Cepec	DATE REMOVED
April
8	TN	Byron Black	STAYED
21	OH	Elwood Jones	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on December 18, 2020, and execution rescheduled for December 6, 2023.
May
14	PA	Paul Gamboa-Taylor	Reprieve granted by Governor Tom Wolf on May 7, 2021.
14	SC	Freddie Owens	STAY GRANTED by the South Carolina Supreme Court on May 4, 2021 “[b]ecause the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) lacks the means to conduct an execution by lethal injection at this time.” The stay remains in effect “until SCDC advises the Court it has the ability to perform the execution as required by the law.”
26	OH	David Martin	STAY GRANTED by the Ohio Supreme Court on April 8, 2021 pending “exhaustion of all state post-conviction proceedings, including any appeals.”
27	OH	Gregory Lott	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on December 18, 2020, and execution rescheduled for February 15, 2024.
June
2	ID	Gerald Pizzuto Jr.	STAY GRANTED by the Idaho District Court for the 2nd District on May 18, 2021 “until the conclusion of commutation proceedings related to Mr. Pizzuto’s current commutation petition” scheduled for the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole’s November 2021 hearing session.
18	SC	Brad Sigmon	STAY GRANTED by the South Carolina Supreme Court on June 16, 2021 because the South Carolina law provides a statutory right for the prisoner to elect between execution by electric chair or execution by firing squad and the S.C. Department of Corrections has no procedures in place to carry out executions by firing squad.
23	OH	Archie Dixon	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on December 18, 2020, and execution rescheduled for April 17, 2024.
25	SC	Freddie Owens III	STAY GRANTED by the South Carolina Supreme Court on June 16, 2021 because the South Carolina law provides a statutory right for the prisoner to elect between execution by electric chair or execution by firing squad and the S.C. Department of Corrections has no procedures in place to carry out executions by firing squad.
July
26	NV	Zane Floyd	Stay granted by the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada on June 28, 2021 with written order issued July 7, 2021 (order appealed). STAY GRANTED by the Nevada state courts on July 9 “pending the Nevada Supreme Court’s ruling on Mr. Floyd’s pending petition for writ of mandamus and prohibition.”
August
11	OH	Timothy Hoffner	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on April 9, 2021 and execution rescheduled for June 18, 2024
September
8	TX	John Ramirez	Stay granted and petition for a writ of certiorari granted by the U.S. Supreme Court on September 8, 2021 to determine whether Texas’s restrictions on religious activities in the execution chamber violate the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
15	OH	John Stumpf	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on April 9, 2021 and execution rescheduled for August 13, 2024
October
20	OH	James Frazier	Died on death row of COVID-19 on November 19, 2020.
27	TX	Ruben Gutierrez	Stay granted by the trial court in September 2021 pending the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in John Ramirez’s case on the scope of the right to free exercise of religion in the execution chamber.
November
None
December
9	OH	Lawrence Landrum	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on April 9, 2021 and execution rescheduled for October 15, 2024

Stays of Execution 2022

Date of Scheduled Execution	State	Prisoner	Reason for Stay
January
None
February
None
March
16	OH	Romell Broom	DIED ON DEATH ROW
April
None
May
None
June
None
July
20	OH	Austin Myers	DATE REMOVED
August
None
September
14	OH	James Tench	Legally premature death warrant. STAY GRANTED by the Ohio Supreme Court on August 26, 2020 pending disposition of state postconviction remedies available to all Ohio prisoners. “The stay shall remain in effect until exhaustion of all state postconviction proceedings, including any appeals.”
October
None
November
None
December
None