Upcoming Executions
Posted: January 02, 2003
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Last updated on August 31, 2010
(Please note that these dates are only tentative. Dates are subject to change due to stays and appeals.)
EXECUTIONS SCHEDULED FOR 2010
| September | ||
| 2 | AL | Holly Wood - Delayed until Sept. 9 |
| 9 | AL | Holly Wood |
| 10 | WA | Cal Brown |
| 14 | PA | Anthony Dick - Stay likely |
| 15 | OH | Kevin Keith |
| 16 | KY | Gregory Wilson |
| 23 | VA | Teresa Lewis |
| 28 | TN | Gaile Owens - Commuted |
| 29 | CA | Albert Brown - Injunction staying all executions remains in force |
| October | ||
| 6 | OH | Michael Benge |
| 14 | TX | Gayland Bradford |
| 14 | OK | Donald Wackerly II |
| 16 | OK | Jeffrey Matthews |
| 19 | PA | Kenneth Hairston - Stay Likely |
| 20 | PA | Cletus Rivera - Stay Likely |
| 20 | MO | Roderick Nunley |
| 21 | PA | Jerry Chambers - Stay Likely |
| 21 | TX | Larry Wooten |
| November | ||
| 4 | AL | Phillip Hallford |
| 9 | TN | Steven Michael West |
| 16 | OH | Sidney Cornwell |
| December | ||
| 7 | TN | Billy Irick |
EXECUTIONS SCHEDULED FOR 2011
| February | ||
| 17 | OH | Frank Spisak |
| March | ||
| 10 | OH | Johnie Baston |
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Date of Scheduled Execution January |
State | Inmate | Reason for Stay |
| 8 | SC | Quincy Allen | To allow time for more appeals. |
| February | |||
| 1 | NV | Robert Lee McConnell | To allow time to hear federal appeals |
| WY | Dale Wayne Eaton | To allow time to hear federal appeals | |
| 18 | AL | Robert Bryant Melson | Pending outcome of a similar appeal in Florida |
| 23 | GA | Melbert Ray Ford Jr. | The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles only has four of its required five members currently; execution stayed for at least 90 days. |
| 24 | TX | Hank Skinner | Clerical error made by court in setting the execution date |
| March | |||
| 9 | FL | David Johnston | Florida Supreme Court issued a stay to hold a hearing to determine whether or not the defendant is mentally retarded. |
| 9 | OH | Lawrence Reynolds | Granted 7-day reprieve after being found unconscious in his cell. Reynolds was executed on March 16. |
| 16 | AR | Jack Harold Jones Jr. | To allow time to hear a challenge to the state's execution procedure. |
| 16 | PA | Angel Diaz | Diaz reversed his decision to waive his appeals |
| 18 | PA | Richard Scott Baumhammers | To allow time to hear federal appeals. |
| 24 | TX | Hank Skinner | The Supreme Court of the United States granted a stay to allow more time to hear Skinner's petition |
| April | |||
| 8 | OK | Richard Smith | Granted clemency |
| 12 | AR | Don William Davis | Stayed in order to hear a challenge on whether the Legislature properly left execution policies in the hands of prison officials |
| 22 | PA | Shonda Walter | To allow time to prepare court filings |
| May | |||
| 4 | AR | Stacey Eugene Johnson | Related to challenges to state's execution procedures |
| 20 | TX | Richard Lee Tabler | Granted stay to provide time to hear habeas petition. |
| 24 | AR | Jack Harold Jones Jr. | To allow time to hear a challenge to the state's execution procedure. |
| June | |||
| 10 | OH | Richard Nields | Granted clemency due to problems with trial testimony (Read more) |
| 17 | OK | Jeffrey Matthews | Execution rescheduled to July 20 to allow time for officials to review evidence; Update: Stayed further (until Aug. 17) to allow more time for review |
| 30 | TX | Jonathan Green | Stayed to review standards used to determine mental competence to be executed |
| August | |||
| 16 | NV | Tamir Hamilton | Stayed to allow more time for ordinary appeals. |
| 17 | PA | James VanDivner | Stayed to allow more time for appeals. |
| 17 | OK | Jeffrey Matthews | Stayed by federal court until Oct. 16 because state proposed to substitute one of the drugs used in lethal injection |
| 18 | PA | Anthony Fletcher | Stayed to allow more time for appeals. |
| 19 | PA | Dennis Miller | Stayed to allow more time for appeals. |
| 24 | PA | Bryan Galvin | Stayed to allow more time for appeals. |
| September | |||
| 28 | TN | Gaile Owens | Governor Phil Bredesen commuted the sentence of Gaile Owens to life in prison based partly on a plea bargain offer that was later rescinded, and partly to make the sentence consistent with verdicts delivered in similar cases in Tennessee. (The Tenneseean, July 14, 2010). |
"Volunteer" refers to inmates who have voluntarily waived their normal appeals (not necessarily that they have volunteered for execution).
Pennsylvania routinely sets execution dates before all appeals have been exhausted.
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