Executions and Stays 2019

(Last updated December 11, 2019)
65 execution dates have been scheduled by 11 states and the Federal Government for 2019.
To date, there have been 22 executions in 7 states.
24 executions have been stayed.
0 executions have been halted by commutation.
13 executions have been halted by reprieve.
3 executions were rendered moot when the prisoners died on death row.
3 warrants have been withdrawn.
0 death warrants are pending.

Date of Scheduled ExecutionStatePrisonerOutcome
January
9OHElwood Hubert JonesReprieve Granted until April 21, 2021 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
15TXBlaine MilamStay 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.”
30TXRobert JenningsExecuted
JANUARY 20193 exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 2 states1 exe­cu­tion; 1 exe­cu­tion stayed; 1 exe­cu­tion halt­ed by reprieve.
February
7ALDomineque Hakim Marcelle RayExecuted after U.S. Supreme Court vot­ed 5 – 4 on February 7, 2019 to vacate a stay grant­ed the day before by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The 11th Circuit had stayed Ray’s exe­cu­tion to resolve his claim that Alabama vio­lat­ed his right to reli­gious free­dom by deny­ing him access to an imam dur­ing his exe­cu­tion in cir­cum­stances in which it would have pro­vid­ed a Christian pris­on­er access to a chap­lain’s religious service.
13OHJames G. HannaReprieve Granted on September 1, 2017 by Gov. John Kasich, and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for December 11, 2019
13OHWarren K. HennessReprieve grant­ed on January 25, 2019 by Gov. Mike DeWine, and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for September 12, 2019.
28TXBillie Wayne CobleExecuted.
FEBRUARY 20194 exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 3 states2 exe­cu­tions; 2 exe­cu­tions halt­ed by reprieve.
March
8PATimothy M. JacobyLegally 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.
20OHArchie J. DixonReprieve grant­ed by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017^, and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for June 23, 2021
28TXPatrick MurphyStay 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.”
MARCH 20193 exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 3 states2 exe­cu­tions stayed; 1 exe­cu­tion halt­ed by reprieve.
April
11TXMark Allen RobertsonStay 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.
11ALChristopher PriceStay 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.
17OHJeffrey A. WogenstahlStay grant­ed by the Ohio Supreme Court on October 24, 2018 pend­ing ​“exhaus­tion of all state post-con­vic­tion pro­ceed­ings, includ­ing any appeals.”
24TXJohn William KingExecuted.
APRIL 20194 exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 2 states1 exe­cu­tion; 3 executions stayed.
May
2TXDexter JohnsonStay 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.
2GAScotty MorrowExecuted
16TNDonnie Edward Johnson

Executed 7:37 p.m. CT

16ALMichael Samra

Executed 7:33 p.m. CT

23FLRobert Long

Executed

29OHTimothy J. HoffnerReprieve grant­ed and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for August 11, 2021 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017^
29OHCleveland JacksonReprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on March 7, 2019 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for November 13, 2019.+
30ALChristopher Lee Price

Executed

MAY 20198 exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 6 states

5 exe­cu­tions; 1 exe­cu­tion stayed; 2 exe­cu­tions halt­ed by reprieve.

June
3OHJames WorleyPremature death war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the Ohio Supreme Court on August 20, 2018 to per­mit Worley to pur­sue his right to a direct appeal of his con­vic­tion and death sentence.
5OHAlva CampbellDied on March 3, 2018.
7GATiffany MossTrial court issued legal­ly pre­ma­ture death war­rant sched­ul­ing exe­cu­tion for week between June 7 – June 14. The exe­cu­tion date was stayed as a mat­ter of law when Moss’s lawyers filed a motion for new tri­al in the trial court.
20GAMarion Wilson

Executed

JUNE 20194 exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 2 states1 exe­cu­tion; 1 exe­cu­tion ren­dered moot when the pris­on­er died on death row; 2 legal­ly pre­ma­ture death warrant stayed
July
10OHKareen M. JacksonReprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on March 7, 2019 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for January 16, 2020.+
16PAWilliam RiveraLegally 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.
31TXRuben GutierrezWarrant with­drawn. New death war­rant issued resched­ul­ing exe­cu­tion for October 30, 2019.
JULY 20193 exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 3 states1 exe­cu­tion halt­ed by reprieve; 1 legal­ly pre­ma­ture death war­rant stayed; 1 warrant withdrawn
August
14OHGregory LottReprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on March 7, 2019 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for March 12, 2020.+
15TNStephen Michael West

Executed

15TXDexter JohnsonStay grant­ed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on August 14, 2019.
19LAJason ReevesLegally 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.
21TXLarry Swearingen

Executed

22FLGary Ray Bowles

Executed

AUGUST 20196 exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 5 states3 exe­cu­tions; 1 exe­cu­tion halt­ed by reprieve; 2 executions stayed.
September
4TXBilly Jack CrutsingerExecuted
10TXMark SolizExecuted
12OHWarren Keith HennessReprieve grant­ed on July 31, 2019 by Gov. Mike DeWine and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for May 14, 2020.
18OHDouglas ColeyReprieve grant­ed and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for August 12, 2020 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
25TXRobert Sparks

Executed

SEPTEMBER 20195 exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 2 states3 exe­cu­tions; 2 exe­cu­tions halt­ed by reprieve
October
1MORussell BucklewExecuted
2TXStephen BarbeeStay 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.
10TNCharles Walton Wright

Died on May 17, 2019.

10TXRandy 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.

16TXRandall Mays

Warrant with­drawn on October 4, 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.

17OHJames FrazierReprieve grant­ed and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for October 20, 2021 by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017.^
17OHAngelo 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.

23OHJason DeanDied on March 23, 2019.
30TXRuben Gutierrez

Stay grant­ed by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on October 22, 2019 based on defects in the issuance and ser­vice of the death warrant.

30GARay Jefferson Cromartie

Stay grant­ed by Georgia Supreme Court on October 30, 2019 to pro­vide the court time to decide an already pend­ing legal issue.

OCTOBER 201910 exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 5 states1 exe­cu­tion; 4 exe­cu­tions stayed; 1 exe­cu­tion halt­ed by reprieve; 2 exe­cu­tions ren­dered moot when the pris­on­er died on death row; 1 war­rant with­drawn; 1 warrant vacated
November
3SDCharles Rhines

Executed

6TXJusten Hall

Executed

7FLJames DaileyStay 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.
13OHCleveland JacksonReprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on September 20, 2019 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for January 13, 2021.
13GARay Jefferson Cromartie

Executed

13TXPatrick Murphy

Stay grant­ed on November 7, 2019 by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas 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.

20TXRodney 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.”

30SCTimothy Jones, Jr.Trial court issued legal­ly pre­ma­ture death war­rant that was stayed by oper­a­tion of law in June 2019 by Rule 246 of the South Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure when Jones’s lawyers filed a notice of intent to appeal his con­vic­tion and sentence.
NOVEMBER 20198 exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 6 states3 exe­cu­tions; 4 death war­rants stayed; 1 exe­cu­tion halt­ed by reprieve
December
5TNLee Hall, Jr.Executed
9FederalDaniel Lewis 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.

11OHJames Hanna

Reprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on October 30, 2019 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for July 16, 2020.

11FederalLezmond 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 

11TXTravis Runnels

Executed

13FederalWesley Ira 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.

13PAJakeem 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.

DECEMBER 20197 exe­cu­tions sched­uled by 4 states and the Federal Government1 exe­cu­tion; 4 death war­rants stayed or enjoined; 1 exe­cu­tion halt­ed by reprieve; 0 warrants pending

* 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).

2019 Death Warrant Outcomes Nationally, by Month
MonthScheduled
Executions		ExecutionsStayed by Courts*CommutationsReprievesDied on
Death Row		RescheduledDate Removed or
Warrant Withdrawn
Total652224013303
January31101000
February42002000
March30201000
April41300000
May85102000
June41200100
July30101001
August63201000
September53002000
October101

4

01202
November

8

3401000
December7

2

40

1

000

* Does not include cas­es with stays of exe­cu­tion or pre­lim­i­nary injunc­tions that are cur­rent­ly under appeal or are still sub­ject to appeal.

2019 Death Warrant Outcomes by State
StateScheduled
Executions		ExecutionsStayed by Courts*CommutationsReprievesDied on
Death Row		RescheduledDate Removed or
Warrant Withdrawn
TOTALS652224013303
Texas21

9

10

00002
Ohio180

2

013201
Georgia53200000
Alabama43100000
Tennessee43000100
Florida32100000
Federal Government30300000
Pennsylvania30300000
Missouri11000000
South Dakota11000000
Louisiana10100000
South Carolina1

0

100000

* Does not include cas­es with stays of exe­cu­tion or pre­lim­i­nary injunc­tions that are cur­rent­ly under appeal or are still sub­ject to appeal.