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.

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

Nicholas Todd Sutton

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