Executions

Upcoming Executions

Last updated on May 19, 2020

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

Executions Scheduled for 2020

Month	State	Prisoner
April
16	TN	Abu-Ali Abdur’ Rahman — STAYED
16	OH	Stanley T. Adams — REPRIEVED
16	OH	John Stumpf — REPRIEVED
23	TX	Fabian Hernandez — 60-DAY STAY
29	TX	Billy Wardlow — RESCHEDULED
May
6	TX	Edward Busby — 60-DAY STAY
13	TX	Randall Mays — STAYED
13	OH	Caron Montgomery — DATE REMOVED
14	OH	Warren Keith Henness — REPRIEVED
19	MO	Walter Barton — EXECUTED
June
2	PA	Tam Minh Le — Legally Premature Warrant STAYED
3	TX	Carlos Trevino — RESCHEDULED
4	TN	Oscar Franklin Smith — STAYED
16	TX	Ruben Gutierrez
17	OH	Romell Broom — REPRIEVED
22	PA	Eric Frein — Legally Premature Warrant
July
8	TX	Billy Wardlow
15	OH	Nathaniel Jackson — DATE REMOVED
16	OH	John Hanna — REPRIEVED
August
4	TN	Harold Wayne Nichols
12	OH	Douglas Coley — REPRIEVED
September
9	TX	John Ramirez
16	OH	Kareem Jackson
17	OH	John Drummond — REPRIEVED
30	TX	Carlos Trevino
October
8	TN	Byron Black
14	OH	Stanley Fitzpatrick
November
18	OH	Anthony Sowell — Legally Premature Warrant STAYED
December
3	TN	Pervis Payne
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
4	TN	Oscar Franklin Smith
18	OH	James O’Neal
March
24	OH	Steven E. Cepec — DATE REMOVED
April
21	OH	Elwood Jones
May
27	OH	Gregory Lott
June
23	OH	Archie Dixon
August
11	OH	Timothy Hoffner
September
15	OH	John Stumpf
October
20	OH	James Frazier
December
9	OH	Lawrence Landrum

Executions Scheduled for 2022

Month	State	Prisoner
January
12	OH	Warren “Keith” Henness
February
16	OH	Stanley Adams
March
16	OH	Romell Broom
April
21	OH	John Drummond
May
18	OH	John Hanna
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

Executions Scheduled for 2023

Month	State	Prisoner
January
12	OH	Antonio Franklin

Stays of Execution 2020

Date of Scheduled Execution	State	Prisoner	Reason for Stay
January
13	Federal	Alfred Bourgeois	Preliminary injunction granted on November 21, 2019 by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia based on a determination that the federal execution protocol announced in July 2019 violates the federal death penalty statute. Motion to vacate injunction denied on December 2 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Application to vacate injunction denied on December 6 by the U.S. Supreme Court.
15	OH	Denny Obermiller	Date removed.
15	OH	George Brinkman	Legally premature warrant. Stay granted by the Ohio Supreme Court on October 9, 2019 to permit Brinkman to pursue appellate review of his conviction and death sentence that is guaranteed as a matter of Ohio law.
15	Federal	Dustin Lee Honken	Preliminary injunction granted on November 21, 2019 by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia based on a determination that the federal execution protocol announced in July 2019 violates the federal death penalty statute. Motion to vacate injunction denied on December 2 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Application to vacate injunction denied on December 6 by the U.S. Supreme Court.
16	OH	Kareem Jackson	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on October 30, 2019 and execution rescheduled for September 16, 2020.
16	GA	Jimmy Meders	Commuted to life without parole by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on January 16, 2020.
February
12	OH	Lawrence Landrum	Reprieve granted by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017 and execution rescheduled for December 9, 2021.^
20	OH	Melvin Bonnell	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on December 20, 2019 and execution rescheduled for March 18, 2021.
March
11	OH	Anthony Belton	Date removed.
11	TX	Carlos Trevino	Execution rescheduled for June 3, 2020.
12	OH	Gregory Lott	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on January 31, 2020 and execution rescheduled for May 27, 2021.
13	PA	Jordan Clemons	Legally premature warrant. Stay granted by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on February 11, 2020 to permit Clemons to pursue habeas corpus review of his conviction and death sentence that is guaranteed as a matter of federal law.
18	TX	John Hummel	60-day stay granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on March 16, 2020 “in light of the current health crisis and the enormous resources needed to address that emergency.”
25	TX	Tracy Beatty	60-day stay granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on March 19, 2020 “in light of the current health crisis and the enormous resources needed to address that emergency.”
April
16	TN	Abu-Ali Abdur’ Rahman	Resentenced to life on August 30, 2019. After Tennessee Attorney General sought to intervene in the case and vacate the resentencing, the Tennessee Supreme Court on December 11, 2019 granted a stay of execution.
16	OH	Stanley Adams	Reprieve granted by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017 and execution rescheduled for February 16, 2022.^
16	OH	John Stumpf	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on January 31, 2020 and execution rescheduled for September 15, 2021.
23	TX	Fabian Hernandez	60-day stay granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on April 1, 2020 based on defense motion invoking coronavirus health crisis.
29	TX	Billy Warlow	Execution rescheduled for July 8, 2020 by order of the trial court on April 6, 2020, granting a motion by the Morris County District Attorney’s office to reschedule the execution and denying a motion by the defense to withdraw the death warrant.
May
6	TX	Edward Busby	60-day stay granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on April 27, 2020 based on a defense motion invoking coronavirus health crisis.
13	OH	Caron Montgomery	Date removed.
13	TX	Randall Mays	Stay granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on May 7, 2020, which remanded his case to the trial court to review his claim of intellectual disability.
14	OH	Warren “Keith” Henness	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on January 31, 2020 and execution rescheduled for January 12, 2022.
June
2	PA	Tam Minh Le	Legally premature warrant. Stay granted by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on April 22, 2020 to permit Le to pursue state post-conviction review of his conviction and death sentence that is guaranteed as a matter of Pennsylvania law.
3	TX	Carlos Trevino	Execution rescheduled by Bexar County Judicial District Court on April 15, 2020. New execution date is September 30, 2020.
4	TN	Oscar Franklin Smith	Stay granted by the Tennessee Supreme Court on April 17, 2020 and execution rescheduled for February 4, 2021.
17	OH	Romell Broom	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on April 14, 2020 and execution rescheduled for March 16, 2022.
July
15	OH	Nathaniel Jackson	Date removed.
16	OH	John Hanna	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on April 14, 2020 and execution rescheduled for May 18, 2022.
August
12	OH	Douglas Coley	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on April 14, 2020 and execution rescheduled for July 20, 2022.
September
17	OH	John Drummond	Reprieve granted by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017 and execution rescheduled for April 21, 2022.^
November
18	OH	Anthony Sowell	Legally premature warrant. Stay granted by the Ohio Supreme Court on January 5, 2017 “pending disposition of available state remedies” to permit Sowell to pursue appellate and post-conviction review of his conviction and death sentence that is guaranteed as a matter of Ohio law.

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).