Date of Scheduled ExecutionStateInmateReason for Stay

January

7

OH

Warren Henness

Stayed due to all Ohio exe­cu­tions blocked by court order until January 15, 2015 New Date Set

8

PA

Christopher Roney

Stayed to allow defen­dant to pur­sue statu­to­ri­ly mandated appeals.

13

PA

Mark Edwards

Stayed to allow defen­dant to pur­sue statu­to­ri­ly mandated appeals.

14

TX

Rodney Reed

Stayed to allow time for appeals regard­ing DNA test­ing. Judge denied a motion to intro­duce new DNA test­ing into the case. New date set.

15

PA

Dennis Reed

Stayed to allow defen­dant to pur­sue statu­to­ri­ly mandated appeals.

15

TX

Richard Vasquez

Stayed due to a request for a delay from the prosecution.

28

MO

Marcellus Williams

Stayed to allow the Missouri State Supreme Court to con­sid­er a request for DNA test­ing that might show innocence.

28

TX

Garcia White

Stayed to allow time for the court to con­sid­er sev­er­al fac­tors per­tain­ing to the case.

29

OK

Richard Glossip

Stayed to allow time for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case chal­leng­ing Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocols.

February

10

TN

Stephen West

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

10

TX

Lester Bower

Stayed to allow the court to allow time to con­sid­er a petition.

11

OH

William Montgomery

Stayed due to all Ohio exe­cu­tions blocked by court order until January 15, 2015 New Date Set

11

OH

Ronald Phillips

Stayed to allow time for the state to obtain new drugs.

19

AL

Tommy Arthur

FURTHER UPDATE: SECOND STAY GRANTED ON 2/​17: A fed­er­al judge ordered a sec­ond stay, stat­ing that Mr. Arthur had met his bur­den for further appeals.
UPDATE: STAY LIFTED on 2/​12 by the 11th Circuit. 
Stayed to allow time for the dis­trict court to con­duct fact-find­ing and gath­er evi­dence regard­ing Arthur’s claims that Alabama’s lethal injec­tion pro­to­col vio­lates his 8th amend­ment right to be free from cru­el and unusual punishment.

19

OK

John Grant

Stayed to allow time for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case chal­leng­ing Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocols.

25

GA

Kelly Gissendaner

Stayed tem­porar­i­ly and resched­uled to 3/​2/​15 due to weather.

26

FL

Jerry Correll

Stayed to allow time for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case chal­leng­ing Oklahoma’s lethal injec­tion pro­to­cols. (Florida uses the same lethal injec­tion pro­to­col as Oklahoma.)

March

2

GA

Kelly Gissendaner

Stayed due to prob­lems with the lethal injection drug.

4

PA

Terrance Williams

Reprieve issued to allow Governor Tom Wolf to review the report of the Pennsylvania Task Force and Advisory Commission on Capital Punishment

5

OK

Benjamin Cole

Stayed to allow time for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case chal­leng­ing Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocols.

5

PA

Kenneth Hairston

Stayed to allow defen­dant to pur­sue statu­to­ri­ly mandated appeals.

5

TX

Rodney Reed

Stayed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to con­sid­er new­ly discovered evidence.

10

GA

Brian Terrell

Stayed pend­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into prob­lems with Georgia’s lethal injection drugs.

10

PA

Alfonso Sanchez

Stayed to allow defen­dant to pur­sue statu­to­ri­ly mandated appeals.

11

PA

Robert Diamond

Reprieve issued to allow Governor Tom Wolf to review the report of the Pennsylvania Task Force and Advisory Commission on Capital Punishment

12

OH

Robert Van Hook

Stayed due to all Ohio exe­cu­tions blocked by court order until January 15, 2015 New Date Set

12

OH

Raymond Tibbetts

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

12

PA

Kevin Mattison

Stayed to allow defen­dant to pur­sue statu­to­ri­ly mandated appeals.

18

TX

Randall Mays

Stayed to review issues sur­round­ing the men­tal health of the inmate.

19

AL

Bill Kuenzel

Stayed by the Alabama Supreme Court pend­ing fur­ther orders of the court to allow more time for appeals.

24

TN

Donnie Johnson

Stayed to allow more time for appeals regard­ing the state’s execution method.

April

14

MO

Andre Cole

Stayed by U.S. District Ct. because of con­cerns about men­tal com­pe­ten­cy. Stay over­turned by Cir. Ct. UPDATE: Executed as sched­uled on April 14.

23

TX

Richard Vasquez

Stayed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to con­sid­er new appellate issues.

28

TX

Robert Pruett

Stayed by tri­al court to pos­si­bly allow DNA testing.

May

3

SD

Rodney Berget

Stayed to allow more time for appeal.

8

PA

Anthony Reid

Stayed to allow defen­dant to pur­sue statu­to­ri­ly man­dat­ed appeals (two warrants).

12

MO

Kimber Edwards

No rea­son giv­en for stay.

14

OH

Gregory Lott

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

June

5

PA

Hubert Michael

Reprieve issued to allow Governor Tom Wolf to review the report of the Pennsylvania Task Force and Advisory Commission on Capital Punishment

18

AL

Robin Myers

Stayed to allow time for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on a case chal­leng­ing lethal injection protocols.

23

TN

Charles Wright

Stayed to allow more time for appeals regard­ing the state’s execution method.

July

15

OH

William Henness

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

16

TX

Clifton Williams

Stayed by the Texas Ct. of Criminal Appeals after attor­neys point­ed to pos­si­ble errors in FBI tes­ti­mo­ny about DNA from the case.

August

13

TX

Tracy Beatty

Stayed by the Texas Ct. of Criminal Appeals after attor­neys point­ed to ear­li­er ineffective representation.

18

TN

David Miller

Stayed pend­ing the out­come of legal chal­lenges to both of the state’s execution methods.

26

TX

Bernardo Tercero

Stayed by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to allow time for further appeals.

27

PA

Maurice Patterson

Stayed by Lycoming County Ct. of Common Pleas to allow defen­dant to pur­sue appeals avail­able to all defen­dants as a mat­ter of state law

28

PA

Hector Morales

Stayed by U.S. Dist. Ct. for Middle Dist. of PA

September

2

TX

Joe Garza

Stayed by tri­al court judge to allow for DNA testing.

3

PA

Herbert Blakeney

Stayed to allow time for federal review.

16

OK

Richard Glossip

Stayed to allow time for the court to review mate­ri­als sub­mit­ted by the defense.

17

OH

William Montgomery

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

29

TX

Perry Williams

Stayed to allow a fed­er­al judge time to appoint an appel­late lawyer in the case.

30

OK

Richard Glossip

Stayed by the gov­er­nor until Nov. 6 due to mix­up in execution drugs

October

5

TN

Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman

Stay grant­ed by the Tennessee Supreme Court on April 10, 2015 pend­ing the out­come of legal chal­lenges to both of the state’s execution methods.

7

OK

Benjamin Cole

Stayed pend­ing review of OK lethal injection procedures.†

19

PA

Michael Ballard

Reprieve issued to allow Governor Tom Wolf to review the report of the Pennsylvania Task Force and Advisory Commission on Capital Punishment

21

AR

Bruce Earl Ward

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

21

AR

Dan William Davis

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

28

OK

John Grant

Stayed pend­ing review of OK lethal injection procedures.†

28

TX

Christopher Wilkins

Stayed at the request of the proso­cu­tion because the Texas Forensic Science Commission ​“is in the process of address­ing emerg­ing issues involv­ing the cal­cu­la­tion of DNA pop­u­la­tion sta­tis­tics and DNA mixture interpretation.”

November

3

AR

Terrick Terrell Nooner

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

3

AR

Stacey Eugene Johnson

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

3

TX

Julius Murphy

Stayed by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to allow time for further appeals.

3

MO

Ernest Lee Johnson

Stayed by U.S. Supreme Court pend­ing review of claim that Missouri lethal injec­tion pro­ce­dures uncon­sti­tu­tion­al as applied to a per­son with Johnson’s par­tic­u­lar medical condition 

6

OK

Richard Glossip

Stayed pend­ing review of OK lethal injection procedures.†

17

OH

Robert Van Hook

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

17

TN

Nicholas Sutton

Stay grant­ed by the Tennessee Supreme Court on April 10, 2015 pend­ing the out­come of legal chal­lenges to both of the state’s execution methods.

18

TX

Raphael Holiday

Stayed (sub­ject to appeal) to give Holiday oppor­tu­ni­ty to seek clemen­cy. Stay lift­ed on appeal, exe­cu­tion occurred as originally scheduled.

December

14

AR

Marcel Wayne Williams

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

14

AR

Jack Harold Jones Jr

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

18

PA

Antayne Robinson

Reprieve issued to allow Governor Tom Wolf to review the report of the Pennsylvania Task Force and Advisory Commission on Capital Punishment.
29OHShawn FordStay grant­ed by the Ohio Supreme Court on October 8, 2015 to per­mit adju­di­ca­tion of Ford’s direct appeal.

#On February 13, 2015, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued a mem­o­ran­dum announc­ing a mora­to­ri­um on all exe­cu­tions in the state. The memo stat­ed that no exe­cu­tions will take place at least until he has ​“received and reviewed the forth­com­ing report of the Pennsylvania Task Force and Advisory Commission on Capital Punishment.” 

^On January 30, 2015, the Ohio State Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections announced that it would post­pone all of the six exe­cu­tions sched­uled in 2015 to that point. All of these exe­cu­tions would be sched­uled in 2016 to allow time for the state to obtain new drugs for lethal injec­tions. The new drugs that Ohio announced it would be try­ing to obtain were sodi­um thiopen­tal and pentobarbital.

^^ On October 19, 2015 the Ohio Department of Corrections issued a state­ment that Gov. Kasich grant­ed reprieves post­pon­ing all exe­cu­tions that the state had sched­uled in 2016. 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.

† On October 2, 2015 The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals grant­ed the Attorny General’s request to indef­i­nite­ly stay all pend­ing exe­cu­tions to allow for review of lethal injection procedures.

~ On October 8, the Arkansas Circuit Court grant­ed a tem­po­rary restrain­ing order stay­ing all eight sched­uled exe­cu­tions so that already pend­ing judi­cial review of the state’s exe­cu­tion pro­ce­dures could take place. 

*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. For more infor­ma­tion about the rul­ing, click here. For the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections press release regard­ing the revised exe­cu­tion sched­ule, click here.