Upcoming Executions

Last updated on February 1, 2012
(Dates are subject to change due to stays and appeals.)

Stays of Execution 2011

Executions Carried Out in 2012

 

EXECUTIONS SCHEDULED FOR 2012


February    
1 TX Donald Newbury - Stayed
8 MS Edwin Turner
15 FL Robert Waterhouse
16 OK Garry Allen
22 OH Michael Webb - Stayed
28 TX Anthony Bartee
29 TX George Rivas
29 AZ Robert Moormann
March    
6 NE Michael Ryan
7 TX Keith Thurmond
8 AZ Robert Towery
8 PA Dustin Briggs - (Stay Likely)
15 OK Timothy Stemple
18 SD Briley Piper - (Stay Likely)
28 TX Jesse Hernandez
April    
18 OH Mark Wiles
26 TX Beunka Adams
May    
13-19 SD Eric Roberts
June    
12 OH Abdul Awkal
July    
26 OH John Eley
September    
20 OH Donald Palmer
November    
13 OH Brett Hartmann

EXECUTIONS SCHEDULED FOR 2013


January    
16 OH Ronald Post
March    
6 OH Frederick Treesh
May    
1 OH Steven Smith
August    
7 OH Billy Slagle
September    
25 OH Harry Mitts
November    
14 OH Ronald Phillips

EXECUTIONS SCHEDULED FOR 2014


January    
16 OH Dennis McGuire

STAYS OF EXECUTIONS 2012


Date of  Scheduled Execution  State  Inmate Reason for Stay
January      
17 PA Ralph Birdsong Stayed to allow time for appeals.
18 PA Kenneth Hairston Stayed to allow time for appeals.
 18 OH Charles Lorraine U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost delayed the execution due to the Department of Corrections failing to "follow its own rules for executions."  Frost said the state failed to document the drugs used in its last execution in November and failed to review the medical chart of the inmate who was put to death.
19 KY Michael St. Clair Stayed due to a pending case on the fairness of the death penalty protocol in Kentucky.
20 DE Robert Gattis Gov. Jack Markell cited the "unusual and perhaps historic" recommendation of the Delaware Board of Pardons, in a 4-1 vote, to commute Gattis’ sentence after considering disturbing accounts of physical and sexual abuse that Gattis claims to have suffered as a child and which his attorneys argued have never been properly considered by the courts.
31 GA Nicholas Tate Stayed to allow time for appeals.
February      
1 TX Donald Newbury Stayed by U.S. Supreme Court to consider an Arizona case that questions whether death row inmates are entitled to better legal help during initial appeals.
22 OH Michael Webb Stayed by U.S. District Judge Gregory L. Frost, through an agreement with Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, to allow time for Ohio to revise their execution protocols.

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

Pennsylvania execution dates and stays are generally not listed because the state routinely sets execution dates before all appeals have been exhausted.

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