Executions

Upcoming Executions

Last updated on January 17, 2020

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

Executions Scheduled for 2020

Month	State	Prisoner
January
13	Federal	Alfred Bourgeois — PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION GRANTED
15	Federal	Dustin Lee Honken — PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION GRANTED
15	OH	Denny Obermiller — DATE REMOVED
15	OH	George Brinkman - Legally Premature Warrant - STAYED
15	TX	John Gardner — EXECUTED
16	GA	Jimmy Meders — COMMUTED
16	OH	Kareem Jackson — REPRIEVED
29	GA	Donnie Cleveland Lance
February
06	TX	Abel Ochoa
12	OH	Lawrence Landrum — REPRIEVED
12	OH	Melvin Bonnell — REPRIEVED
20	TN	Nicholas Todd Sutton
March
11	OH	Anthony Belton — DATE REMOVED
11	TX	Carlos Trevino
12	OH	Gregory Lott
18	TX	John Hummel
25	TX	Tracy Lane Beatty
April
9	TN	Abu-Ali Abdur’ Rahman - Stay Granted
16	OH	Stanley T. Adams — REPRIEVED
16	OH	John Stumpf
23	TX	Fabian Hernandez
29	TX	Billy Wardlow
May
13	TX	Randall Mays
13	OH	Caron Montgomery — DATE REMOVED
14	OH	Warren Keith Henness
June
4	TN	Oscar Franklin Smith
17	OH	Romell Broom
July
15	OH	Nathaniel Jackson — DATE REMOVED
16	OH	John Hanna
August
4	TN	Harold Wayne Nichols
12	OH	Douglas Coley
September
16	OH	Kareem Jackson
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.
30	TX	Ruben Gutierrez	Stay granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on October 22, 2019 based on defects in the issuance and service of the death warrant.
30	GA	Ray Jefferson Cromartie	Stay granted by the Georgia Supreme Court to afford the court time to address issues raised in an already pending appeal.
November
7	FL	James Dailey	Stay granted on October 23, 2019 by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida until December 30, 2019 to provide newly appointed habeas corpus counsel time to investigate and present potential claims for relief.
13	OH	Cleveland Jackson	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on September 20, 2019 and execution rescheduled for January 13, 2021.
13	TX	Patrick Murphy	Stay granted by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on November 7, 2019 to permit full review of claim that Texas denies non-Christians equal access to religious advisors during execution process. Stay upheld on November 12 by a split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
20	TX	Rodney Reed	Stay granted on November 15, 2019 by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals with directions that the trial court review Reed’s claims that “the State suppressed exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland”; “the State presented false testimony in violation of due process”; and that Reed “is actually innocent.”
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
9	Federal	Daniel Lee	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. Stay granted on December 5, 2019 by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana to permit litigation of a claim that federal prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence and presented false argument exaggerating Lee’s involvement in a prior murder. Stay vacated on December 6 by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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.
11	OH	John Hanna	Reprieve granted by Gov. Mike DeWine on October 30, 2019 and execution rescheduled for July 16, 2020.
13	Federal	Wesley Purkey	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.
13	PA	Jakeem Towles	Legally premature death warrant. Stay granted by the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on November 15, 2019 to permit Towles to pursue federal habeas corpus review to which all state prisoners are entitled as a matter of law.

* 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
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.
April
9	TN	Abu-Ali Abdur’ Rahman	Resentenced to life on August 30, 2019.
16	OH	Stanley Adams	Reprieve granted by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017 and execution rescheduled for February 16, 2022 .^
May
13	OH	Caron Montgomery	Date removed.
July
15	OH	Nathaniel Jackson	Date removed.
September
17	OH	John Drummond	Reprieve granted by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017 and execution rescheduled for April 21, 2022.^
November
17	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).