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.
Cases
Pending Cases
Byron Lewis Black
Tony V. Carruthers
Henry Eugene Hodges
Donald Ray Middlebrooks
David Earl Miller
Farris Genner Morris
Harold Wayne Nichols
Pervis T. Payne
Christa Gail Pike
Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman
Oscar Franklin Smith
Gary Wayne Sutton
Executions that have been carried out
Cecil C. Johnson, Jr.
Steve Henley
Daryl Holton
Philip Workman
Sedley Alley
Robert Glen Coe
Billy Ray Irick
Edmund Zagorski
Donnie Johnson
Stephen Michael West
Lee Hall a/k/a Leroy Hall, Jr.
Sentence Commuted
Edward Harbison
Gaile Owens
Mika'eel Abdullah Abdus-Samad aka Michael Joe Boyd
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