Stays and Executions in 2014

Date of Scheduled ExecutionStateInmateOutcome

January

7

FL

Askari Muhammad

Executed.

9

OK

Michael Wilson

Executed.

15

TX

Rigoberto Avila

Stayed to allow time for appeals.

15

TN

Billy Irick

Stayed to allow time to chal­lenge Tennessee’s new one-drug lethal injec­tion pro­to­col. Rescheduled for Oct. 7, 2014.

16

OH

Dennis McGuire

Executed. McGuire took 26 min­utes to die in this botched execution.

22

TX

Edgar Tamayo

Executed.

23

OK

Kenneth Hogan

Executed.

28

PA

Robert Rega

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on December 17, 2013 to per­mit Rega to pur­sue habeas cor­pus appeals avail­able to all defen­dants as a mat­ter of federal law.

29

PA

Laquaille Bryant

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on December 17, 2013 to per­mit Bryant to pur­sue post-con­vic­tion appeals avail­able to all defen­dants as a mat­ter of state law.

29

MO

Herbert Smulls

Executed. Temporarily stayed by the Supreme Court. Stay lift­ed by Supreme Court with­out expla­na­tion on 1/​29 and Smulls was executed.

February

4

DE

Gary Ploof

Stay grant­ed pend­ing res­o­lu­tion of a fed­er­al habeas cor­pus appeal filed ear­li­er this year.

5

LA

Christopher Sepulvado

Stayed 90 days to allow time to deter­mine whether Louisiana’s switch to a 2‑drug lethal injec­tion pro­to­col could vio­late Sepulvado’s con­sti­tu­tion­al right against cru­el and unusual punishment.

5

TX

Suzanne Basso

Executed.

12

FL

Juan Chavez

Executed.

26

MO

Michael Taylor

Executed.

26

FL

Paul Howell

Executed.

March

13

PA

Donte Thomas

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on February 6, 2014 to per­mit Thomas to pur­sue state post-con­vic­tion appeals avail­able to all defen­dants as a mat­ter of state law.

19

OH

Gregory Lott

Stay grant­ed to allow time to review lethal injection procedures.

19

TX

Ray Jasper

Executed.

20

FL

Robert Henry

Executed.

22

OK

Clayton Lockett

Stayed until April 22 to allow time to find a sup­ply of lethal injection drugs.

26

MS

Charles Crawford

Stay grant­ed as exe­cu­tion date had not been affirmed by state court.

26

MO

Jeffrey Ferguson

Executed.

27

OK

Charles Warner

Stayed until April 29 to allow time to find a sup­ply of lethal injection drugs.

27

MS

Michelle Byrom

Stay grant­ed as exe­cu­tion date had not been affirmed by state court. The Mississippi Supreme Court sub­se­quent­ly over­turned Michelle Byrom’s mur­der con­vic­tion and death sen­tence for numer­ous con­sti­tu­tion­al vio­la­tions, includ­ing inad­e­quate rep­re­sen­ta­tion, crit­i­cal evi­dence not pre­sent­ed to the jury, con­fes­sions by anoth­er defen­dant, and the pros­e­cu­tion’s lack of con­fi­dence in its own sto­ry of what actu­al­ly hap­pened. Byrom lat­er pled guilty to less­er charges to avoid a retri­al and was released.

27

TX

Anthony Doyle

Executed.

April

3

TX

Tommy Sells

Executed. Stay of exe­cu­tion ini­tial­ly grant­ed by fed­er­al dis­trict court, which ruled that Texas’ fail­ure to dis­close details about the drugs it intends to use for exe­cu­tions vio­lat­ed Sells’ con­sti­tu­tion­al rights. The deci­sion was reversed and the stay lift­ed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

9

TX

Ramiro Hernandes

Executed. Stay of exe­cu­tion ini­tial­ly grant­ed by fed­er­al dis­trict court, which ruled that Texas’ fail­ure to dis­close details about the drugs it intends to use for exe­cu­tions vio­lat­ed Sells’ con­sti­tu­tion­al rights. The deci­sion was reversed and the stay lift­ed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

16

PA

Stephen Edmiston

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on February 25, 2014 to pre­vent exe­cu­tion before Edmiston could obtain fed­er­al habeas cor­pus review of his con­vic­tion and sen­tence to which he was enti­tled as a mat­ter of law.

16

TX

Jose Villegas

Executed.

22

TN

Nickolaus Johnson

Stay of exe­cu­tion grant­ed. Granted post-conviction relief.

22

OK

Clayton Lockett

The Oklahoma Supreme Court stayed the exe­cu­tion to allow time to hold a hear­ing on Lockett’s law­suit over the state’s secre­cy sur­round­ing its lethal injec­tion drugs. Update — stay was lift­ed and exe­cu­tion was resched­uled for April 29. 

23

MO

William Rousan

Executed.

23

FL

Robert Hendrix

Executed.

29

OK

Clayton Lockett

Executed. Update — 43 min­utes into botched exe­cu­tion, Lockett died from a heart attack.

29

OK

Charles Warner

The Oklahoma Supreme Court stayed the exe­cu­tion to allow time to hold a hear­ing on Warner’s law­suit over the state’s secre­cy sur­round­ing its lethal injec­tion drugs. Update — stay was lift­ed. Update — exe­cu­tion was stayed for two weeks due to prob­lems with Lockett’s exe­cu­tion, fur­ther stay like­ly. Update — exe­cu­tion was stayed by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals until November 13 to allow time for the ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion into the botched exe­cu­tion of Clayton Lockett.

May

13

TX

Robert Campbell

Stay grant­ed by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on May 13, 2014 to con­sid­er claim of intellectual disability.

21

TX

Robert Pruett

Stay grant­ed to allow more time for appeals.

21

MO

Russell Bucklew

Stay grant­ed by U.S. Supreme Court pend­ing the out­come of an appeal before the 8th Circuit.

29

TX

Edgardo Cubas

Stayed indef­i­nite­ly to eval­u­ate mental competency.

June

17

GA

Marcus Wellons

Executed.

18

MO

John Winfield

Executed. Stayed on June 12 because of state inter­fer­ence with the clemen­cy process. However, the stay was lift­ed and Winfield was exe­cut­ed on June 18.

18

PA

Lewis Jordan

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on May 5, 2014 to per­mit Jordan to pur­sue state post-con­vic­tion appeals to which all Pennsylvania pris­on­ers are enti­tled as a mat­ter of law.

18

FL

John Henry

Executed.

July

2

OH

Ronald Phillips

Stay grant­ed as a result of court order block­ing all Ohio exe­cu­tions until August 15. UPDATE — resched­uled to Sept. 18. UPDATE — resched­uled to February 11, 2015

10

GA

Tommy Waldrip

Commuted to a sen­tence of life with­out parole by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles.

10

FL

Eddie Davis

Executed.

16

MO

John Middleton

Executed. Intially stayed to allow time to exam­ine claims of men­tal ill­ness. The stay was sub­se­quent­ly lift­ed and Middleton was exe­cut­ed on July 16.

23

AZ

Joseph Wood

Executed. Stayed pend­ing state’s release of exe­cu­tion infor­ma­tion. UPDATE: Stay lift­ed by US Supreme Ct. on July 22. Execution botched — took near­ly two hours before Wood died. 

August

6

OH

William Montgomery

Stay grant­ed as a result of court order block­ing all Ohio exe­cu­tions until January 15, 2015. New Date Set

6

TX

Manuel Vasquez

Stay grant­ed to per­mit fil­ing of clemen­cy peti­tion and adju­di­ca­tion of final appeal.

6

MO

Michael Worthington

Executed.

10

MO

Leon Taylor

No rea­son giv­en. Attorneys asked for more time for an appeal.

20

PA

Patrick Stollar

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on July 1, 2014 to per­mit Stollar to pur­sue state post-con­vic­tion appeals to which all Pennsylvania pris­on­ers are enti­tled as a mat­ter of law.

21

PA

Glenn Lyons

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on July 8, 2014 to per­mit Lyons to pur­sue state and fed­er­al post-con­vic­tion appeals to which all Pennsylvania pris­on­ers are enti­tled as a mat­ter of law.

September

10

MO

Earl Ringo

Executed.

10

TX

Wiliie Trottie

Executed.

17

TX

Lisa Coleman

Executed.

18

OH

Ronald Phillips

Stay grant­ed as a result of court order block­ing all Ohio exe­cu­tions until January 15, 2015. New Date Set.

22

PA

Hubert Michael

Stay grant­ed by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on August 15, 2014 to allow more time for a fed­er­al judi­cial review. Reprieve issued by Governor Tom Corbett on September 12, 2014 because of a lack of exe­cu­tion drugs. The Third Circuit grant­ed a sec­ond stay on October 23, 2014 to pro­vide the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections more time ​“to com­plete the acqui­si­tion of injec­tion agents as man­dat­ed by statute.”

October

7

TN

Billy Irick

Stayed to allow more time for appeals regard­ing the lethal injection protocol.

14

PA

Michael Parrish

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas on September 4, 2014 to per­mit Parrish to pur­sue state post-con­vic­tion appeals to which all Pennsylvania pris­on­ers are enti­tled as a mat­ter of law.

15

OH

Raymond Tibbetts

Stay grant­ed as a result of court order block­ing all Ohio exe­cu­tions until January 15, 2015. New Date Set.

15

TX

Larry Hatten

Stayed to allow time for a pre­vi­ous appeal to be decided.

28

TX

Miguel Parades

Executed.

29

MO

Mark Christeson

Stay grant­ed by U.S. Supreme Court to con­sid­er peti­tion regard­ing qual­i­ty of rep­re­sen­ta­tion during appeals.

November

13

OK

Charles Warner

Stayed to allow the state to obtain drugs and train staff on new pro­to­cols. (Update: New Date Set)

13

PA

Miguel Padilla

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on October 3, 2014 to per­mit Padilla to pur­sue state and fed­er­al post-con­vic­tion appeals to which all Pennsylvania pris­on­ers are enti­tled as a mat­ter of law.

13

FL

Chadwick Banks

Executed.

19

OH

Gregory Lott

Stay grant­ed as a result of court order block­ing all Ohio exe­cu­tions until January 15, 2015. New Date Set.

19

MO

Leon Taylor

Executed.

20

OK

Richard Glossip

Stayed to allow the state to obtain drugs and train staff on new pro­to­cols. (Update: New Date Set)

26

IN

William Gibson

Stayed to allow more time for appeals.

December

2

PA

Michael Ballard

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the Northampton County Court of Common Pleas on November 18, 2014 pend­ing the out­come of a legal chal­lenge to Pennsylvania’s lethal injection methods.

3

PA

Richard Baumhammers

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on October 7, 2014 to per­mit Baumhammers to pur­sue fed­er­al habeas cor­pus appeals to which all pris­on­ers are enti­tled as a mat­ter of law.

3

TX

Scott Panetti

Stayed to allow time to review recent­ly filed appeals.

4

DE

James Cooke

Stayed to allow more time for appeals.

4

OK

John Grant

Stayed to allow the state to obtain drugs and train staff on new pro­to­cols. (Update: New Date Set)

4

PA

Robert Flor

Legally pre­ma­ture death war­rant. Stayed by the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas on October 31, 2014 to per­mit Flor to pur­sue state post-con­vic­tion appeals to which all Pennsylvania pris­on­ers are enti­tled as a mat­ter of law.

9

TN

Ed Zagorski

Stayed to allow time for appeals regard­ing Tennessee’s execution methods.

9

GA

Robert Holsey

Executed.

10

MO

Paul Goodwin

Executed.

11

TX

Robert Ladd

Stayed due to an issue with the warrant.

*On September 5, 2014, the Ohio State Department of Rehabilitation Corrections revised its exe­cu­tion sched­ule for all death sen­tences pre­vi­ous­ly sched­uled from March 2014 and beyond. This was done in order to com­ply with the August 6, 2014 Federal Court rul­ing that no exe­cu­tions could be car­ried out until at least January 2015. The court imposed this mora­to­ri­um in order to com­pel a review of Ohio’s lethal injection protocol.