Executions

Upcoming Executions

Last updated on October 16, 2019

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

Executions Scheduled for 2019

Month	State	Prisoner
September
4	TX	Billy Jack Crutsinger — EXECUTED
10	TX	Mark Soliz — EXECUTED
12	OH	Warren Keith Henness — REPRIEVED
18	OH	Douglas Coley — REPRIEVED
25	TX	Robert Sparks — EXECUTED
October
1	MO	Russell Bucklew — EXECUTED
2	TX	Stephen Barbee — STAYED
10	TN	Charles Walton Wright — DIED 5/17/19
10	TX	Randy Halprin - STAYED
16	TX	Randall Mays — WARRANT WITHDRAWN
17	OH	James Frazier — REPRIEVED
17	OH	Angelo Fears — resentenced to life. DEATH WARRANT VACATED
23	OH	Jason Dean — DIED
30	TX	Ruben Gutierrez
30	GA	Ray Jefferson Cromartie
November
3	SD	Charles Rhines
6	TX	Justen Hall
7	FL	James Dailey
13	OH	Cleveland Jackson — REPRIEVED
13	TX	Patrick Murphy
20	TX	Rodney Reed
30	SC	Tim Jones, Jr. — legally premature warrant — STAYED
December
5	TN	Lee Hall Jr.
9	Federal	Daniel Lewis Lee
11	OH	James Hanna*
11	Federal	Lezmond Mitchell — STAYED (subject to appeal)
11	TX	Travis Runnels
13	Federal	Wesley Ira Purkey

* Governor Mike DeWine has indicated that Ohio will not carry out any of the scheduled executions until it devises a new execution protocol that is approved by the courts.

⁺ One of three executions Governor Mike DeWine rescheduled on March 7, 2019 as a result of the absence of an acceptable lethal-injection protocol.

Executions Scheduled for 2020

Month	State	Prisoner
January
13	Federal	Alfred Bourgeois
15	Federal	Dustin Lee Honken
15	OH	Denny Obermiller — DATE REMOVED
15	OH	George Brinkman - Legally Premature Warrant - STAYED
15	TX	John Gardner
16	OH	Kareem Jackson*
February
11	TX	Abel Ochoa
12	OH	Lawrence Landrum — REPRIEVED
12	OH	Melvin Bonnell
20	TN	Nicholas Todd Sutton
March
11	OH	Anthony Belton — DATE REMOVED
11	TX	Carlos Trevino
12	OH	Gregory Lott
April
9	TN	Abu-Ali Abdur’ Rahman - RESENTENCED TO LIFE
16	OH	Stanley T. Adams — REPRIEVED
16	OH	John Stumpf
May
13	OH	Caron Montgomery — DATE REMOVED
14	OH	Warren Keith Henness
June
17	OH	Romell Broom
July
15	OH	Nathaniel Jackson — DATE REMOVED
August
12	OH	Douglas Coley
September
17	OH	John Drummond — REPRIEVED
October
14	OH	Stanley Fitzpatrick
November
18	OH	Anthony Sowell — Legally Premature Warrant - STAYED
December
9	OH	David Sneed

Executions Scheduled for 2021

Month	State	Prisoner
January
13	OH	Cleveland Jackson
20	OH	Dawud E. Spaulding — Legally Premature Warrant - STAYED
February
18	OH	James O’Neal
March
24	OH	Steven E. Cepec — DATE REMOVED
April
21	OH	Elwood Jones
June
23	OH	Archie Dixon
August
11	OH	Timothy Hoffner
October
20	OH	James Frazier
December
9	OH	Lawrence Landrum

Executions Scheduled for 2022

Month	State	Prisoner
February
16	OH	Stanley Adams
April
21	OH	John Drummond
June
22	OH	Percy Hutton
July
20	OH	Austin Myers - DATE REMOVED
August
24	OH	Cedric Carter
September
14	OH	James Tench

Executions Scheduled for 2023

Month	State	Prisoner
January
12	OH	Antonio Franklin

Stays of Execution 2019

Date of Scheduled Execution	State	Prisoner	Reason for Stay
January
9	OH	Elwood Jones	Rescheduled for April 21, 2021 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
15	TX	Blaine Milam	Stay granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on January 14, 2019 to permit litigation of successive state post-conviction petition raising new evidence claims, “[b]ecause of recent changes in the science pertaining to bite mark comparisons and recent changes in the law pertaining to the issue of intellectual disability.”
February
13	OH	James Hanna	Rescheduled for December 19, 2019 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
13	OH	Warren Keith Henness	Reprieve granted on January 25, 2019 by Gov. Mike DeWine, and execution rescheduled for September 12, 2019.
March
8	PA	Timothy M. Jacoby	Legally premature death warrant. Stay granted by the York County Court of Common Pleas on February 8, 2019 to permit Jacoby to pursue state post-conviction appeals that are available to all Pennsylvania prisoners as a matter of right.
20	OH	Archie Dixon	Rescheduled for June 23, 2021 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
28	TX	Patrick Murphy	Stay granted by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 28, 2019 “pending the timely filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari unless the State permits Murphy’s Buddhist spiritual advisor or another Buddhist reverend of the State’s choosing to accompany Murphy in the execution chamber during the execution.”
April
11	TX	Mark Robertson	Stay granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on April 8, 2019 “pending further order from this Court” on whether to reconsider the issues presented in his 1997 state habeas corpus petition.
11	AL	Christopher Price	Stay granted by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama on April 11 as part of preliminary injunction against Alabama execution protocol. New stay granted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to consider jurisdictional issues presented by the District Court stay. By a post-midnight 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the stay, but it was still in effect when the state’s corrections department called off the execution because the death warrant was about to expire.
17	OH	Jeffrey A. Wogenstahl	Stay granted by the Ohio Supreme Court on October 24, 2018 pending “exhaustion of all state post-conviction proceedings, including any appeals.”
May
2	TX	Dexter Johnson	Stay granted by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on April 30, 2019 to provide recently appointed habeas corpus counsel 90 days to develop a series of claims relating to the alleged ineffective representation provided by prior counsel.
29	OH	Timothy Hoffner	Rescheduled for August 11, 2021 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
29	OH	Cleveland Jackson	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on March 7, 2019 and execution rescheduled for November 13, 2019.⁺
June
5	OH	Alva Campbell	Died on March 3, 2018
7	GA	Tiffany Moss	Legally premature death warrant was stayed as a matter of law when Moss’ lawyers filed a motion for new trial in the trial court.
July
10	OH	Kareen M. Jackson	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on March 7, 2019 and execution rescheduled for January 16, 2020.⁺
16	PA	William Rivera	Legally premature death warrant. Stay granted by the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on June 6, 2019 to permit Rivera to pursue federal habeas corpus review to which all state prisoners are entitled as a matter of law.
31	TX	Ruben Gutierrez	Warrant withdrawn. New death warrant issued rescheduling execution for October 30, 2019.
August
14	OH	Gregory Lott	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on March 7, 2019 and execution rescheduled for March 12, 2020.⁺
15	TX	Dexter Johnson	Stay granted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on August 14, 2019.
19	LA	Jason Reeves	Legally premature death warrant. Stay granted by the U.S. District Court in Louisiana on August 9, 2019 to permit Reeves to pursue federal habeas corpus review to which all state prisoners are entitled as a matter of law.
September
12	OH	Warren Keith Henness	Rescheduled for May 14, 2020 by Gov. Mike DeWine on July 31, 2019.
18	OH	Douglas Coley	Rescheduled for August 12, 2020 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
October
2	TX	Stephen Barbee	Stay granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on September 23, 2019 to determine whether to apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in McCoy v. Louisiana to Barbee’s case.
10	TN	Charles Wright	Died on May 17, 2019.
10	TX	Randy Halprin	Stay granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on October 4, 2019 and case remanded to the trial court to address Halprin’s claim of judicial bias in his case.
16	TX	Randall Mays	Warrant withdrawn on October 3, 2019 by the Henderson County District Court “to permit the Court time to properly review all medical records submitted” to determine Mays’ competency to be executed.
17	OH	James Frazier	Rescheduled for October 20, 2021 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
17	OH	Angelo Fears	Resentenced to life without parole on May 22, 2019, by agreement between the defense and prosecutors. Warrant vacated on June 24, 2019 by Ohio Supreme Court.
23	OH	Jason Dean	Date removed.
November
30	SC	Timothy Jones, Jr.	Legally premature warrant. Execution stayed by operation of law in June 2019 by Rule 246 of the South Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure when Jones’ lawyers filed a notice of intent to appeal his conviction and sentence.
December
11	Federal	Lezmond Mitchell	Stay granted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on October 4, 2019 pending resolution of an appeal for which a certificate of appealability had already been granted prior to the issuance of the death warrant (subject to appeal).

* On February 19, 2019, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine stated that the state would not carry out any executions until it devised a new execution protocol that was approved by the courts. However, he did not formally halt the executions scheduled in the state.

^ On September 1, 2017, Ohio Governor John Kasich issued a statement and an updated execution schedule, which changed the execution dates for 19 of 26 condemned prisoners who had scheduled dates between September 2017 and September 2020. The execution schedule for these 26 prisoners now extends through April 2022.

⁺ One of three reprieves Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued on March 7, 2019 as a result of the absence of an acceptable lethal-injection protocol.

“Volunteer” refers to prisoners who have voluntarily waived their normal appeals (not necessarily that they have volunteered for execution).

Stays of Execution 2020

Date of Scheduled Execution	State	Prisoner	Reason for Stay
February
12	OH	Lawrence Landrum	Rescheduled for December 9, 2021 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
April
9	TN	Abu-Ali Abdur’ Rahman	Resentenced to life on August 30, 2019.
16	OH	Stanley Adams	Rescheduled for February 16, 2022 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
September
17	OH	John Drummond	Rescheduled for April 21, 2022 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^

Notes

* On February 10, 2017, Ohio’s Governor John R. Kasich issued a statement revising the schedule for eight upcoming executions. This revised schedule is in response to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s denial of a motion to stay enforcement, pending appeal, of a federal magistrate judge’s order declaring Ohio’s execution procedures unconstitutional.

** On May 1, 2017, Ohio’s Governor Kasich issued another statement revising the schedule for nine upcoming executions. This revised schedule was in response to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s order setting a briefing schedule for the Court’s en banc rehearing of the state’s appeal of a federal magistrate judge’s order issuing a preliminary injunction barring Ohio from carrying out 3-drug executions using midazolam or any execution using a paralytic agent or potassium chloride.

^ On September 1, 2017, Ohio’s Governor Kasich issued a statement and an updated execution schedule, which changed the execution dates for 19 of 26 condemned prisoners who had scheduled dates between September 2017 and September 2020. The execution schedule for these 26 prisoners now extends through April 2022.

^^ On October 19, 2015, the Ohio Department of Corrections issued a statement that Governor Kasich granted reprieves postponing all executions that the state had scheduled through 2017. Ohio has been unable to obtain the execution drugs required to conduct executions under state law. All execution dates have been rescheduled by the state.

~ In 2011, Gov. John Kitzhaber imposed a moratorium on all executions in Oregon. Current Governor Kate Brown has requested a report on the status of the death penalty and indicated the report will inform future policy decisions.

“Volunteer” refers to prisoners who have voluntarily waived their normal appeals (not necessarily that they have volunteered for execution).