Stays of Execution 2020 

Date of Scheduled Execution State Prisoner Reason for Stay
January
13FederalAlfred Bourgeois

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.

15OHDenny ObermillerDate removed.
15

OH

George BrinkmanLegally pre­ma­ture war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the Ohio Supreme Court on October 9, 2019 to per­mit Brinkman to pur­sue appel­late review of his con­vic­tion and death sen­tence that is guar­an­teed as a mat­ter of Ohio law.
15FederalDustin Lee Honken

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.

16 OH Kareem Jackson Reprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on October 30, 2019 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for September 16, 2020.
16GAJimmy MedersCommuted to life with­out parole by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on January 16, 2020.
February
12 OH Lawrence Landrum Reprieve grant­ed by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for December 9, 2021.^
20OHMelvin BonnellReprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on December 20, 2019 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for March 18, 2021.
March
11 OH Anthony Belton Date removed.
11TXCarlos TrevinoExecution resched­uled for June 3, 2020.
12OHGregory LottReprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on January 31, 2020 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for May 27, 2021.
13PAJordan Clemons

Legally pre­ma­ture war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on February 11, 2020 to per­mit Clemons to pur­sue habeas cor­pus review of his con­vic­tion and death sen­tence that is guar­an­teed as a mat­ter of federal law.

18TXJohn Hummel60-day stay grant­ed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on March 16, 2020 ​“in light of the cur­rent health cri­sis and the enor­mous resources need­ed to address that emergency.”
25TXTracy Beatty60-day stay grant­ed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on March 19, 2020 ​“in light of the cur­rent health cri­sis and the enor­mous resources need­ed to address that emergency.”
April
16TNAbu-Ali Abdur’ RahmanResentenced to life on August 30, 2019. After Tennessee Attorney General sought to inter­vene in the case and vacate the resen­tenc­ing, the Tennessee Supreme Court on December 11, 2019 grant­ed a stay of exe­cu­tion.
16 OH Stanley Adams Reprieve grant­ed by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for February 16, 2022.^
16OHJohn StumpfReprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on January 31, 2020 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for September 15, 2021.
23TXFabian Hernandez

60-day stay grant­ed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on April 1, 2020 based on defense motion invok­ing coro­n­avirus health crisis.

29TXBilly Wardlow

Execution resched­uled for July 8, 2020 by order of the tri­al court on April 6, 2020, grant­i­ng a motion by the Morris County District Attorney’s office to resched­ule the exe­cu­tion and deny­ing a motion by the defense to with­draw the death warrant.

May
6TXEdward Busby60-day stay grant­ed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on April 27, 2020 based on a defense motion invok­ing coro­n­avirus health crisis.
13 OH

Caron Montgomery

Date removed.
13TXRandall MaysStay grant­ed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on May 7, 2020, which remand­ed his case to the tri­al court to review his claim of intellectual disability.
14OHWarren ​“Keith” Henness

Reprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on January 31, 2020 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for January 12, 2022.

June
2PATam Minh LeLegally pre­ma­ture war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on April 22, 2020 to per­mit Le to pur­sue state post-con­vic­tion review of his con­vic­tion and death sen­tence that is guar­an­teed as a mat­ter of Pennsylvania law.
3TXCarlos TrevinoExecution resched­uled by Bexar County Judicial District Court on April 15, 2020. New exe­cu­tion date is September 30, 2020.
4TNOscar Franklin SmithStay grant­ed by the Tennessee Supreme Court on April 17, 2020 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for February 4, 2021.
16TXRuben GutierrezStay grant­ed by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 16, 2020 to deter­mine whether to review Gutierrez’s peti­tion to review his chal­lenge to Texas’s denial of his request to have a Christian chap­lain accom­pa­ny him in the exe­cu­tion cham­ber. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas ini­tial­ly grant­ed a stay, which was vacat­ed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on June 12.
17OHRomell Broom

Reprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on April 14, 2020 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for March 16, 2022.

22PAEric FreinLegally pre­ma­ture war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the Pike Court of Common Pleas on June 12, 2020 to per­mit Frein to pur­sue state post-con­vic­tion review of his con­vic­tion and death sen­tence that is guar­an­teed as a mat­ter of Pennsylvania law.
July
15 OH

Nathaniel Jackson


 Date removed.
16OHJohn HannaReprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on April 14, 2020 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for May 18, 2022.
28PALeeton ThomasLegally pre­ma­ture war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on June 30, 2020 to per­mit Thomas to pur­sue habeas cor­pus review of his con­vic­tion and death sen­tence that is guar­an­teed as a mat­ter of federal law.
August
12 OH Douglas Coley

Reprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on April 14, 2020 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for July 20, 2022.

September
16OHKareem JacksonReprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on June 5, 2020 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for September 15, 2022.
17 OH John Drummond Reprieve grant­ed by Gov. John Kasich on September 1, 2017 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for April 21, 2022.^
30TXCarlos TrevinoExecution date with­drawn by the Bexar County District Court on September 15, 2020 ​“due to the cur­rent COVID-19 con­di­tions in Texas.” A hear­ing to reset the exe­cu­tion date has been sched­uled for March 5, 2021.
October
8TNByron BlackStay grant­ed by the Tennessee Supreme Court on June 12, 2020 because of the coro­n­avirus impact on lit­i­ga­tion and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for April 8, 2021.
14 OH Stanley Fitzpatrick

Reprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on June 5, 2020 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for February 15, 2023.

November
18 OH Anthony Sowell

Legally pre­ma­ture war­rant. Stay grant­ed by the Ohio Supreme Court on January 5, 2017 ​“pend­ing dis­po­si­tion of avail­able state reme­dies” to per­mit Sowell to pur­sue appel­late and post-con­vic­tion review of his con­vic­tion and death sen­tence that is guar­an­teed as a mat­ter of Ohio law. 

December
3TNPervis PayneReprieve grant­ed by Gov. Bill Lee on November 6, 2020 until April 9, 2021.
4SCRichard MooreStay grant­ed by the South Carolina Supreme Court on November 30, 2020 because ​“the South Carolina Department of Corrections does not have, and will not be able to obtain, the drugs required for exe­cu­tion by lethal injec­tion by December 4, 2020.”
8FederalLisa MontgomeryTemporary stay grant­ed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on November 18, 2020 based on the denial of mean­ing­ful access to clemen­cy and the aban­don­ment by coun­sel result­ing from coun­sel’s con­tract­ing COVID-19. Execution resched­uled for January 12, 2021.
9 OH David Sneed

Reprieve grant­ed by Gov. Mike DeWine on June 5, 2020 and exe­cu­tion resched­uled for April 19, 2023.

^ On September 1, 2017, Ohio’s Governor 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.

“Volunteer” refers to pris­on­ers who have vol­un­tar­i­ly waived their nor­mal appeals (not nec­es­sar­i­ly that they have vol­un­teered for execution).