Executions

Upcoming Executions

Last updated on December 4, 2022

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

Executions Scheduled for 2022

Month	State	Prisoner
November
9	TX	Tracy Beatty — EXECUTED
16	TX	Stephen Barbee — EXECUTED
16	AZ	Murray Hooper — EXECUTED
17	OK	Richard Fairchild — EXECUTED
17	AL	Kenneth Smith — EXECUTION HALTED
29	MO	Kevin Johnson — EXECUTED
December
8	TN	Donald Middlebrooks — REPRIEVED
8	OK	Richard Glossip — REPRIEVED
14	MS	Thomas Edwin Loden Jr.
15	OK	John Hanson — Not in Oklahoma custody, execution will not happen
15	ID	Gerald Pizzuto — State will let warrant expire

Executions Scheduled for 2023

Month	State	Prisoner
January
3	MO	Amber McLaughlin (death warrant issued under the name Scott McLaughlin)
10	TX	Robert Fratta
12	OH	Antonio Franklin — REPRIEVED
12	OK	Scott Eizember
February
1	TX	Wesley Ruiz
7	MO	Leonard Taylor
8	TX	John Ballentine
15	OH	Stanley L. Fitzpatrick — REPRIEVED
16	OK	Richard Glossip
March
7	TX	Gary Green
9	OK	Jemaine Cannon
9	TX	Arthur Brown
15	OH	Charles Lorraine
29	TX	Anibal Canales, Jr.
April
5	TX	Andre Thomas
6	OK	Anthony Sanchez
19	OH	David A. Sneed — RESENTENCED TO LIFE on January 31, 2022 under Ohio’s serious mental illness law
May
4	OK	Phillip Hancock
17	OH	Gerald Hand
June
1	OK	James Ryder
15	OH	Cleveland Jackson
July
6	OK	Michael Smith
19	OH	Michael D. Webb — DIED ON DEATH ROW
August
3	OK	Wade Lay
16	OH	James O’Neal
September
13	TX	Henry Skinner
14	OH	Jerome Henderson
October
5	OK	Richard Rojem
18	OH	Melvin Bonnell
November
2	OK	Emmanuel Littlejohn
16	OH	Keith Lamar
December
6	OH	Elwood Jones
7	OK	Kevin Underwood

Executions Scheduled for 2024

Month	State	Prisoner
January
10	OH	Scott A. Group
11	OK	Wendell Grissom
February
8	OK	Tremane Wood
15	OH	Gregory Lott
March
7	OK	Kendrick Simpson
14	OH	John Stojetz
April
17	OH	Archie Dixon
May
2	OK	Raymond Johnson
June
6	OK	Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez
18	OH	Timothy Hoffner
July
11	OK	James Pavatt
August
8	OK	Clarence Goode, Jr.
13	OH	John Stumpf
September
5	OK	Ronson Bush
October
3	OK	Alfred Mitchell
15	OH	Lawrence Landrum
November
None
December
5	OK	Marlon Harmon
17	OH	Warren “Keith” Henness

Executions Scheduled for 2025

Month	State	Prisoner
January
22	OH	Sean Carter
February
19	OH	Stanley Adams
March
19	OH	Shawn Grate — Legally premature — STAYED
April
16	OH	John Drummond
May
14	OH	James Hanna
June
18	OH	Percy Hutton
July
30	OH	Samuel Moreland
August
27	OH	Cedrick Carter
September
24	OH	Douglas Coley
October
30	OH	Timothy Coleman
November
None
December
None

Executions Scheduled for 2026

Month	State	Prisoner
January
7	OH	Quisi Bryan
February
11	OH	Antonio Franklin
March
12	OH	James Trimble
April
16	OH	Stanley L. Fitzpatrick
May
None
June
None
July
22	OH	Danny Lee Hill
August
None
September
None
October
None
November
None
December
None

Stays of Execution 2022

Date of Scheduled Execution	State	Prisoner	Reason for Stay
January
6	OK	Wade Lay	STAY GRANTED by the Pittsburg County District Court on December 6, 2021 until a mental competency trial is conducted “so as to ensure an incompetent person is not irreparably harmed by way of execution, in contravention of his constitutional rights.”
12	OH	Warren “Keith” Henness	REPRIEVED by Governor Mike DeWine on September 10, 2021 and execution rescheduled for December 17, 2024.
27	AL	Matthew Reeves	Preliminary injunction granted by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on January 7, 2022 barring the Alabama Department of Corrections “from executing [Reeves] by any method other than nitrogen hypoxia before his [Americans With Disabilities Act] claim can be decided on its merits.” Preliminary injunction affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on January 26, 2022. INJUNCTION VACATED by 5-4 vote of U.S. Supreme Court on January 27, 2022. EXECUTED.
February
16	OH	Stanley Adams	REPRIEVED by Governor Mike DeWine on September 10, 2021 and execution rescheduled for February 19, 2025.
March
8	TX	Michael Gonzales	STAY GRANTED by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on March 3, 2022 to permit Gonzales to litigate claims that “(1) he is intellectually disabled and cannot constitutionally be executed; (2) the State suppressed material exculpatory and impeaching information in violation of Brady v. Maryland.”
10	OK	James Allen Coddington	STAY GRANTED by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma on December 23, 2021 pursuant to joint stipulation of the parties after the order dismissing Coddington from the ongoing Oklahoma lethal-injection lawsuit was vacated and he was restored as a plaintiff in that lawsuit.
16	OH	Romell Broom	DIED ON DEATH ROW on December 28, 2020 of COVID-19.
April
21	OH	John Drummond	REPRIEVED by Governor Mike DeWine on September 10, 2021 and execution rescheduled for April 16, 2025.
21	TN	Oscar Smith	REPRIEVE granted by Governor Bill Lee minutes before the scheduled execution on April 21, 2022: “Due to an oversight in preparation for lethal injection, the scheduled execution of Oscar Smith will not move forward tonight. I am granting a temporary reprieve while we address Tennessee Department of Correction protocol. Further details will be released when available.”
27	TX	Melissa Lucio	STAY GRANTED by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on April 25, 2022 and case remanded to the trial court to conduct a hearing on Lucio’s claims that “but for the State’s use of false testimony, no juror would have convicted her; previously unavailable scientific evidence would preclude her conviction; she is actually innocent; [and] … the State suppressed favorable, material evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland.” (claim numbers omitted)
29	SC	Richard Moore	STAYED for an indefinite period by the South Carolina Supreme Court on April 20, 2022, with as yet unreleased explanatory order to follow.
May
10	TN	Michael Rimmer	Legally premature death warrant STAYED
13	SC	Brad Sigmon	STAYED by South Carolina Supreme on April 22, 2022.
17	GA	Virgil Presnell, Jr.	STAYED by the Fulton County Superior Court on May 16, 2022 on the grounds that the execution date violated an agreement that established conditions under which executions could resume after the pandemic.
18	OH	James Hanna	REPRIEVED by Governor Mike DeWine on September 10, 2021 and execution rescheduled for May 14, 2025.
June
9	TN	Harold Nichols	REPRIEVED by Governor Bill Lee on May 2, 2022 to conduct investigation of execution protocol oversight
July
13	TX	Ramiro Gonzales	STAY GRANTED by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on July 11, 2022 to permit Gonzales to litigate a claim that his death sentence was obtained through the presentation of false expert testimony concerning his alleged future dangerousness.
20	OH	Austin Myers	DATE REMOVED
August
18	TN	Byron Black	REPRIEVED by Governor Bill Lee on May 2, 2022 to conduct investigation of execution protocol oversight
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.”
15	OH	Kareem Jackson	REPRIEVED by Governor Mike DeWine on May 13, 2022 and execution rescheduled for December 10, 2025.
22	AL	Alan Eugene Miller	EXECUTION HALTED by Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm shortly before midnight (Central Time) on September 22, 2022 when the execution team reported that it would not be able to set an IV line before the death warrant expired. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama had issued a preliminary injunction on September 19, 2022 enjoining Alabama “from executing Alan Eugene Miller by any method other than nitrogen hypoxia.” On the afternoon of September 22, 2022, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit by a 2-1 vote denied the motion to stay injunction filed by the state attorney general. At about 9:15 p.m. Central time, the Supreme Court VACATED THE INJUNCTION without opinion by a 5-4 vote, leaving Alabama approximately 2½ hours to carry out the execution before the warrant expired.
October
6	TN	Gary Sutton	REPRIEVED by Governor Bill Lee on May 2, 2022 to conduct investigation of execution protocol oversight
17	TN	Urshawn Miller	Legally premature death warrant. REPRIEVED by Governor Bill Lee on May 12, 2022 until December 31, 2022.
26	OH	Quisi Bryan	REPRIEVED by Governor Mike DeWine on June 24, 2022 and execution rescheduled for January 7, 2026.
November
16	TX	Stephen Barbee	The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas granted Barbee a preliminary injunction on November 3, 2022 on religious rights grounds. The injunction was vacated on November 14th. On November 15, the district court granted an amended preliminary injunction. On November 16, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit VACATED the amended preliminary injunction.
17	AL	Kenneth Smith	EXECUTION HALTED shortly before midnight (Central Time) on November 17, 2022 when the execution team reported that it would not be able to set an IV line before the death warrant expired. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted Smith a stay of execution on November 17, 2022 as a result of Smith’s challenge to Alabama’s execution protocol. The United States Supreme Courtvacated the stay.
December
8	TN	Donald Middlebrooks	REPRIEVED by Governor Bill Lee on May 2, 2022 to conduct investigation of execution protocol oversight
8	OK	Richard Glossip	REPRIEVED by Governor Kevin Stitt on November 3, 2022 “to allow time for the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to address pending legal proceedings,” and execution rescheduled for February 16, 2023.
15	OK	John Hanson	Oklahoma scheduled John Hanson’s execution while he was in federal custody, without first obtaining agreement his custody would be transferred. The Federal Bureau of Prisons subsequently denied Oklahoma’s demand to transfer custody prior to completion of Hanson’s federal sentence. Oklahoma has postponed Hanson’s clemency hearing, a prerequisite to his execution, which will cause his execution warrant to expire. The death warrant is technically still pending.
15	ID	Gerald Pizzuto, Jr.	The Idaho Department of Corrections announced on November 30, 2022 that it had been unable to obtain the lethal injection drugs necessary to carry out the execution and that it would allow the death warrant issued in this case to expire.

Stays of Execution 2023

Date of Scheduled Execution	State	Prisoner	Reason for Stay
January
12	OH	Antonio Franklin	REPRIEVED by Governor Mike DeWine on July 1, 2022 and execution rescheduled for February 11, 2026.
February
15	OH	Stanley Fitzpatrick	REPRIEVED by Governor Mike DeWine on July 1, 2022 and execution rescheduled for April 16, 2026.
March
None
April
19	OH	David Sneed	RESENTENCED TO LIFE on January 31, 2022 under Ohio’s serious mental illness law.
May
None
June
None
July
19	OH	Michael D. Webb	DIED ON DEATH ROW on May 2, 2022.
August
None
September
None
October
None
November
None
December
None