Executions

Upcoming Executions

Last updated on September 24, 2020

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

Executions Scheduled for 2020

Month	State	Prisoner
August
4	TN	Harold Wayne Nichols — REPRIEVED
12	OH	Douglas Coley — REPRIEVED
26	Federal	Lezmond Mitchell — EXECUTED
28	Federal	Keith Dwayne Nelson — EXECUTED
September
9	TX	John Ramirez — WARRANT WITHDRAWN
16	OH	Kareem Jackson — REPRIEVED
17	OH	John Drummond — REPRIEVED
22	Federal	William LeCroy — EXECUTED
24	Federal	Christopher Vialva — EXECUTED
30	TX	Carlos Trevino — WARRANT WITHRAWN
October
8	TN	Byron Black — STAYED
14	OH	Stanley Fitzpatrick — REPRIEVED
November
18	OH	Anthony Sowell — Legally Premature Warrant STAYED
December
3	TN	Pervis Payne
9	OH	David Sneed — REPRIEVED

Executions Scheduled for 2021

Month	State	Prisoner
January
13	OH	Cleveland Jackson — REPRIEVED
20	OH	Dawud E. Spaulding — Legally Premature Warrant STAYED
21	TX	Blaine Milam
February
4	TN	Oscar Franklin Smith
18	OH	James O’Neal — REPRIEVED
March
4	TX	Ramiro Ibarra
18	OH	Melvin Bonnell — REPRIEVED
24	OH	Steven E. Cepec — DATE REMOVED
April
8	TN	Byron Black
20	TX	Ramiro Gonzales
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
15	OH	Kareem Jackson

Executions Scheduled for 2023

Month	State	Prisoner
January
12	OH	Antonio Franklin
February
15	OH	Stanley Fitzpatrick
April
19	OH	Daniel Sneed
June
15	OH	Cleveland Jackson
August
16	OH	James O’Neal
October
18	OH	Melvin Bonnell

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 Wardlow	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.
16	TX	Ruben Gutierrez	Stay granted by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 16, 2020 to determine whether to review Gutierrez’s petition to review his challenge to Texas’s denial of his request to have a Christian chaplain accompany him in the execution chamber. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas initially granted a stay, which was vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on June 12.
17	OH	Romell Broom	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on April 14, 2020 and execution rescheduled for March 16, 2022.
22	PA	Eric Frein	Legally premature warrant. Stay granted by the Pike Court of Common Pleas on June 12, 2020 to permit Frein to pursue state post-conviction review of his conviction and death sentence that is guaranteed as a matter of Pennsylvania law.
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.
28	PA	Leeton Thomas	Legally premature warrant. Stay granted by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on June 30, 2020 to permit Thomas to pursue habeas corpus review of his conviction and death sentence that is guaranteed as a matter of federal law.
August
12	OH	Douglas Coley	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on April 14, 2020 and execution rescheduled for July 20, 2022.
September
16	OH	Kareem Jackson	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on June 5, 2020 and execution rescheduled for September 15, 2022.
17	OH	John Drummond	Reprieve granted by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017 and execution rescheduled for April 21, 2022.^
30	TX	Carlos Trevino	Execution date withdrawn by the Bexar County District Court on September 15, 2020 “due to the current COVID-19 conditions in Texas.” A hearing to reset the execution date has been scheduled for March 5, 2021.
October
8	TN	Byron Black	Stay granted by the Tennessee Supreme Court on June 12, 2020 because of the coronavirus impact on litigation and execution rescheduled for April 8, 2021.
14	OH	Stanley Fitzpatrick	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on June 5, 2020 and execution rescheduled for February 15, 2023.
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.
December
9	OH	David Sneed	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on June 5, 2020 and execution rescheduled for April 19, 2023.

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).