Stays of Execution in 2013

Date of Scheduled Execution

State

Inmate

Reason for Stay

January

8

PA

Mark Spotz

Stayed to allow time for appeals.

16

OH

Ronald Post

Commuted to a sen­tence of life without parole.

29

TX

Kimberly McCarthy

Stayed until 4/​3/​2013 after attor­neys raised claims of racial bias.

February

13

LA

Christopher Sepulvado

Stayed due to issues with lethal injec­tion pro­to­col in the state of Louisiana. UPDATE: The 5^th Circuit lift­ed the stay. (Aug. 30). No new date set.

19

GA

Warren Hill

Stayed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to exam­ine the issue of Hill’s mental retardation.

20

TX

Britt Ripkowski

Stayed by a dis­trict court which found the defen­dant legally incompetent.

21

GA

Andrew Cook

Stayed on lethal injec­tion grounds by the Georgia Court of Appeals. Update — Stay was lift­ed and Cook was exe­cut­ed as scheduled.

26

FL

Augustus Howell

Stayed to allow time for appeals.

27

TX

Larry Swearingen

Stayed to allow time for DNA testing.

March

5

PA

Freeman May

Stayed to allow time for appeals.

6

PA

Orlando Maisonet

Stayed to allow time for appeals.

6

AZ

Edward Schad

Stayed by the 9^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to allow time for appeals.

7

PA

Abraham Sanchez

Stayed to allow time for appeals.

21

TX

Michael Gonzales

Stayed to allow time for appeals.

April

3

TX

Kimberly McCarthy

Stayed due to pro­posed leg­is­la­tion that would address racial dis­crim­i­na­tion in the death penal­ty. Update — McCarthy was exe­cut­ed on 6/​26/​13.

10

TX

Rigoberto Avila

Stayed by 41^st District Judge Anna Perez who ruled addi­tion­al time is nec­es­sary to allow Avila’s defense attor­neys to explore pos­si­ble new evi­dence of Avila’s innocence.

21

PA

Borgela Philistin

Stayed to allow time for appeals.

24

TX

Elroy Chester

Stayed to allow time to clar­i­fy legal issues.

25

PA

Michael Travaglia

Stayed to allow time for appeals.

May

7

MS

Willie Manning

Stayed by Mississippi Supreme Court to allow fur­ther review of the case.

21

TX

Robert Pruett

60-day stay to allow for DNA testing.

June

24

FL

Marshall Gore

Stayed to allow the 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear claims of men­tal ill­ness. Update — A fed­er­al appeals court lift­ed the stay, exe­cu­tion resched­uled for July 10.

July

10

FL

Marshall Gore

Stayed to allow time to hear claims of men­tal ill­ness. Update — Rescheduled for 9/​10. Update — Rescheduled for 10/​1.

15, 19

GA

Warren Hill

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Gail Tusan issued a stay of exe­cu­tion for Warren Hill. A hear­ing is sched­uled for Thursday, July 18 to con­sid­er chal­lenges to the new state law that shields from the pub­lic the iden­ti­ty of the lethal injec­tion drug’s man­u­fac­tur­er and the pre­scrib­ing physi­cian. Update — exe­cu­tion has been resched­uled for July 19. Update — Georgia judge ruled state’s new lethal injec­tion secre­cy law is uncon­sti­tu­tion­al, there­by fur­ther stay­ing Hill’s exe­cu­tion. An appeal is likely.

August

15

VA

William Morva

Stayed by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Urbanski to allow time for Morva to con­tin­ue his appeals.

18 – 24

CO

Nathan Dunlap

Gov. John Hickenlooper issued an exec­u­tive order grant­i­ng a temporary reprieve.

September

10

PA

Harve Johnson

Stayed to allow more time for appeals.

October

16

TX

Larry Hatten

Stayed to allow time to deter­mine mental competency.

23

MO

Allen Nicklasson

Stayed due to issues with lethal injec­tion pro­ce­dures in Missouri. Update — Execution has been resched­uled for 12/​11/​2013. Update — Nicklasson exe­cut­ed 12/​11/​2013

29

TX

Arthur Brown

Stayed to con­duct addi­tion­al foren­sic tests on evidence.

November

14

OH

Ronald Phillips

To allow time to con­sid­er dona­tion of non-vital organs by the inmate to his relatives.

December

3

FL

Askari Muhammad

Stayed pend­ing chal­lenge to Florida’s new lethal injec­tion pro­to­col. UPDATE: After los­ing appeal, exe­cu­tion date re-set for Jan. 7, 2014.

11

MO

Allen Nicklasson

Stayed by 8^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based on Nicklasson’s claims of inef­fec­tive coun­sel. Update — exe­cut­ed on 12/​11/​2013.

17

WA

Cecil Davis

Stayed to allow time to continue appeals.