Capital Cases | Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts

Pending Cases

Below is a list of capital cases that have, at one point, neared their execution date. This is not a complete list of defendants on death row. For that list, please visit the Department of Correction's Death Row page. We have compiled the recent filings in each of these cases, however, the files here are not to be construed as the complete record of the proceedings in these cases.

Tony V. Carruthers
Henry Eugene Hodges
Donald Ray Middlebrooks
Farris Genner Morris
Christa Gail Pike
Gary Wayne Sutton
Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines
Kevin Burns
Jon Douglas Hall
Kennath Artez Henderson
William Glenn Rogers

Sentence Relief Granted

Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman

Executions that have been carried out

Harold Wayne Nichols
Byron Lewis Black
Oscar Franklin Smith
Nicholas Todd Sutton
Cecil C. Johnson, Jr.
Steve Henley
Daryl Holton
Philip Workman
Sedley Alley
Robert Glen Coe
B illy Ray Irick
Edmund Zagorski
Donnie Johnson
Stephen Michael West
David Earl Miller
Lee Hall a/k/a Leroy Hall, Jr.

Sentence Commuted

Edward Harbison
Gaile Owens
Mika'eel Abdullah Abdus-Samad aka Michael Joe Boyd
Pervis T. Payne

Exonerated

Paul House

Died of Natural Causes

Stephen Lynn Hugueley
Olen E. Hutchison
Paul Dennis Reid
Donald Wayne Strouth
Gregory Thompson
Ricky Thompson
Charles Walton Wright

Executions in Tennessee

The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) provides information about the history of executions in Tennessee, a list of all Tennessee executions and a list of all prisoners on death row. Please visit TDOC's Execution Facts page for more information about how the death penalty is carried out in Tennessee..

For more information, please contact TDOC https://www.tn.gov/correction/contact/media-requests.html

Tennessee's Death Penalty: Costs & Consequences

The Tennessee Comptroller's office conducted a study in 2004 to examine the costs of first degree murder cases. Their report compares the cost of cases that received the sentences of life in prison, life in prison without the possibility of parole and the death penalty.

Click here for the Comptroller's report.