Stays of Execution in 2016

January

14

AR

Jason McGehee

Temporary restrain­ing order grant­ed stay­ing exe­cu­tion so already pend­ing judi­cial review of AR lethal injec­tion pro­ce­dures could take place.~~

14

AR

Kenneth Williams

Temporary restrain­ing order grant­ed stay­ing exe­cu­tion so already pend­ing judi­cial review of AR lethal injec­tion pro­ce­dures could take place.~~

21

OH

Ronald Phillips

All 2016 Ohio exe­cu­tions grant­ed a reprieve because new exe­cu­tion drugs could not be obtained.^^

21

OH

Jeffery Wogenstahl

Stayed due to all 2015 Ohio exe­cu­tions being post­poned until 2016 to allow the state more time to obtain new drugs. New Date Set.^^

February

11

FL

Michael Ray Lambrix

Stayed by Florida Supreme Court while the court con­sid­ers his peti­tion rais­ing the retroac­tiv­i­ty of Hurst v. Florida (U.S. 2016).

19

OH

Raymond Tibbetts

All 2016 Ohio exe­cu­tions grant­ed a reprieve because new exe­cu­tion drugs could not be obtained.^^

March

14

LA

Daniel Blank

Stayed by the Louisiana Supreme Court on a unanimous decision.

15

PA

Thomas Meadows

Stayed by U.S. District Court to per­mit Meadows to pur­sue fed­er­al habeas cor­pus review to which he is enti­tled as of right.#

16

PA

Jeffrey Martin

Stayed by state tri­al court to per­mit Martin to pur­sue state post-con­vic­tion review to which he is enti­tled as of right.#

16

VA

Ricky Jovan Gray

4^th Circuit issued a stay while the Supreme Court is con­sid­er­ing hear­ing the case.

18

PA

Christopher Johnson

Stayed by U.S. District court for the Middle District of PA.#

17

FL

Mark James Asay

Stayed by Florida Supreme Court while the court con­sid­ers his peti­tion rais­ing the retroac­tiv­i­ty of Hurst v. Florida (U.S. 2016).

23

OH

Alva Campbell

Stayed due to all 2015 Ohio exe­cu­tions being post­poned until 2016 to allow the state more time to obtain new drugs. New Date Set^^

30

TX

John David Battaglia

Stayed by 5^th Circuit for appoint­ment of new fed­er­al coun­sel to devel­op claim of incom­pe­tence to be executed

April

13

VA

Ivan Teleguz

Stayed by 4^th Circuit to per­mit fil­ing and dis­po­si­tion of peti­tion for writ of cer­tio­rari in U.S. Supreme Court

20

OH

Gregory Lott

All 2016 Ohio exe­cu­tions grant­ed a reprieve because new exe­cu­tion drugs could not be obtained.^^

27

TX

Robert Pruett

Date changed to August 23, 2016.

May

2

PA

Stephen Treiber

Stayed by U.S. District Court to per­mit Treiber to pur­sue fed­er­al habeas cor­pus review to which he is enti­tled as of right.#

3

PA

Shonda Dee Walter

Stayed by state tri­al court to per­mit Walter to pur­sue state post-con­vic­tion review to which she is enti­tled as of right.#

11

TX

Terry Darnell Edwards

Date changed to October 19, 2016.

12

AL

Vernon Madison

Stay grant­ed by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for a deter­mi­na­tion of whether the Alabama state court’s deci­sion find­ing him com­pe­tent to be exe­cut­ed was con­trary to or an unrea­son­able appli­ca­tion of clear­ly estab­lished U.S. Supreme Court prece­dent, or was the prod­uct of an unrea­son­able deter­mi­na­tion of the facts con­cern­ing Madison’s com­pe­ten­cy. The U.S. Supreme Court split 4 – 4 on Alabama’s motion to vacate the stay, leav­ing the cir­cuit court’s decision intact.

18

OH

Angelo Fears

All 2016 Ohio exe­cu­tions grant­ed a reprieve because new exe­cu­tion drugs could not be obtained.^^

June

2

TX

Charles Flores

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals grant­ed a stay of exe­cu­tion on May 27 to per­mit Flores to pur­sue a sec­ond state habeas cor­pus peti­tion chal­leng­ing the pros­e­cu­tion’s use of hyp­not­i­cal­ly refreshed eye­wit­ness tes­ti­mo­ny to con­vict him of the murder.

21

TX

Robert Roberson

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals grant­ed a stay of exe­cu­tion on June 16 to per­mit Roberson to pur­sue a sec­ond state habeas cor­pus peti­tion chal­leng­ing the pros­e­cu­tion’s use of ​“false foren­sic tes­ti­mo­ny” (shak­en baby syn­drome) to con­vict him of the murder.

22

OH

Warren Henness

All 2016 Ohio exe­cu­tions grant­ed a reprieve because new exe­cu­tion drugs could not be obtained.^^

July

1

PA

George Hitcho

Stay grant­ed on June 3 by state tri­al court to per­mit Hitcho to pur­sue state post-con­vic­tion review to which he is enti­tled as of right.#

14

TX

Perry Williams

Execution stayed pend­ing test­ing of lethal injec­tion drug as part of a lawsuit settlement.

20

OH

Cleveland R. Jackson

All 2016 Ohio exe­cu­tions grant­ed a reprieve because new exe­cu­tion drugs could not be obtained.^^

20

TX

Taichin Preyor

Execution date with­drawn upon motion of the par­ties.

27

TX

Rolando Ruiz

Date changed to August 31, 2016.

August

10

TX

Ramiro Gonzales

Date changed to November 2, 2016.

15

OH

William Montgomery

All 2016 Ohio exe­cu­tions grant­ed a reprieve because new exe­cu­tion drugs could not be obtained.^^

23

TX

Robert Pruett

Stay grant­ed by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on August 11 to per­mit review of claims based on DNA evidence. 

24

TX

Jeffery Wood

Stay grant­ed by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on August 19 to per­mit review of claims that death sen­tence was a prod­uct of false sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence con­cern­ing future dan­ger­ous­ness and that the pros­e­cu­tion’s use of false tes­ti­mo­ny to obtain the death sen­tence vio­lat­ed due process.

31

TX

Rolando Ruiz

Stay grant­ed by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on August 26 ​“pend­ing fur­ther order of this Court,” fol­low­ing fil­ing of suc­ces­sive state post-con­vic­tion peti­tion chal­leng­ing (1) inef­fec­tive­ness of tri­al and inti­tial post-con­vic­tion coun­sel for fail­ing to inves­ti­gate and present mit­i­gat­ing evi­dence and (2) the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of an exe­cu­tion two decades after the death sen­tence was imposed. 

September

14

TX

Robert Mitchell Jennings

Stay grant­ed by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals by a vote of 5 – 4 on September 2 ​“pend­ing fur­ther order of this Court.”

19

OK

Albert Johnson

Trial court set exe­cu­tion date dur­ing 7/​6 sen­tenc­ing pro­ceed­ings; appeals court grant­ed stay on July 26 to per­mit manda­to­ry direct appeal of con­vic­tion and sentence.

21

OH

Kareem Jackson

All 2016 Ohio exe­cu­tions grant­ed a reprieve because new exe­cu­tion drugs could not be obtained.^^

October

19

OH

Robert Van Hook

All 2016 Ohio exe­cu­tions grant­ed a reprieve because new exe­cu­tion drugs could not be obtained.^^

19

TX

Terry Darnell Edwards

Date changed to January 26, 2017.

November

2

TX

Ramiro Gonzales

The exe­cu­tion date was removed from the Texas Department of Corrections sched­ule without comment.

3

AL

Tommy Arthur

Stay grant­ed by the U.S. Supreme Court pend­ing review of Arthur’s peti­tion for writ of cer­tio­rari involv­ing a chal­lenge to Alabama’s method of execution.

16

OH

Jeffery Wogenstahl

All 2016 Ohio exe­cu­tions grant­ed a reprieve because new exe­cu­tion drugs could not be obtained.^^

December

7

TX

John Battaglia

Stay grant­ed by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on December 4 with direc­tions to the par­ties to file briefs with­in 60 days on the ques­tion of Battaglia’s com­pe­ten­cy to be executed.