Executions

Upcoming Executions

Last updated on June 7, 2019

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

Executions Scheduled for 2019

Month	State	Prisoner
May
2	TX	Dexter Johnson — STAYED
2	GA	Scotty Morrow — EXECUTED
16	TN	Donnie Edward Johnson — EXECUTED
16	AL	Michael Samra — EXECUTED
23	FL	Bobby Joe Long — EXECUTED
29	OH	Timothy J. Hoffner — RESCHEDULED
29	OH	Cleveland Jackson — REPRIEVED, RESCHEDULED⁺
30	AL	Christopher Lee Price — EXECUTED
June
5	OH	Alva Campbell — DIED 3/3/18
7	GA	Tiffany Moss — legally premature warrant — STAYED
20	GA	Marion Wilson
July
10	OH	Kareem M. Jackson — REPRIEVED, RESCHEDULED⁺
16	PA	William Rivera — legally premature warrant
31	TX	Ruben Gutierrez
August
15	TN	Stephen Michael West
14	OH	Gregory Lott — REPRIEVED, RESCHEDULED⁺
21	TX	Larry Swearingen
22	FL	Gary Ray Bowles
September
4	TX	Billy Jack Crutsinger
10	TX	Mark Soliz
12	OH	Warren Keith Henness*
18	OH	Douglas Coley — RESCHEDULED
October
2	TX	Stephen Barbee
10	TN	Charles Walton Wright — DIED 5/17/19
17	OH	James Frazier — RESCHEDULED
23	OH	Jason Dean — DATE REMOVED
17	OH	Angelo Fears*
November
13	OH	Cleveland Jackson*
December
5	TN	Lee Hall Jr.
11	OH	James Hanna*

* 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
15	OH	Denny Obermiller — DATE REMOVED
20	OH	Kareem Jackson*
February
12	OH	Lawrence Landrum — RESCHEDULED
12	OH	Melvin Bonnell
20	TN	Nicholas Todd Sutton
March
11	OH	Anthony Belton — DATE REMOVED
12	OH	Gregory Lott
April
9	TN	Abu-Ali Abdur’ Rahman
16	OH	Stanley T. Adams — RESCHEDULED
16	OH	John Stumpf
May
13	OH	Caron Montgomery — DATE REMOVED
June
17	OH	Romell Broom
July
15	OH	Nathaniel Jackson — DATE REMOVED
August
12	OH	Douglas Coley
September
17	OH	John Drummond — RESCHEDULED
October
14	OH	Stanley Fitzpatrick
November
18	OH	Anthony Sowell — DATE REMOVED
December
9	OH	David Sneed

Executions Scheduled for 2021

Month	State	Prisoner
January
20	OH	Dawud E. Spaulding — DATE REMOVED
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
August
24	OH	Cedric Carter

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.^
June
5	OH	Alva Campbell	Died on March 3, 2018
7	GA	Tiffany Moss	Legally premature death warrant scheduled execution for June 7-14; will be stayed by operation of law when counsel files notice of intent to appeal death sentence.
July
10	OH	Kareen Jackson	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on March 7, 2019 and execution rescheduled for January 16, 2020.⁺
August
14	OH	Gregory Lott	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on March 7, 2019 and execution rescheduled for March 12, 2020.⁺
September
18	OH	Douglas Coley	Rescheduled for August 12, 2020 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
October
10	TN	Charles Wright	Died on May 17, 2019.
17	OH	James Frazier	Rescheduled for October 20, 2021 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^

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
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).