Death Penalty Information Mockup

06/23/86

Debra Brown

Federal Habeas (Dist. Ct.); successive state post-conviction petition – Atkins.

03/26/93

Eric D. Holmes

Cert. from Federal Habeas denial denied.

6/17/97

[John Stephenson]

Death sentence reversed on Federal Habeas; new penalty phase pending. 

8/26/99

Joseph Corcoran

Cert. from Federal Habeas denial denied.

7/31/00

Michael Dean Overstreet

Affirmed on Federal Habeas; cert. denied by U.S.S.Ct.  Found incompetent to be executed, 11/10/2014, on state successor PCR.  AG did not appeal.

10/15/02

Benjamin Ritchie

Cert. from Federal Habeas denial denied.

4/18/2005

[Wayne Kubsch]

Conviction and sentence reversed in Federal Habeas.  Third trial pending.

6/9/2005

[Frederick Michael Baer]

Death sentence reversed on Federal Habeas; state is appealing.

6/8/2007

Roy Ward

Cert. from Federal Habeas denial denied. Lethal injection litigation pending on transfer.

3/8/2013

Kevin Isom

Pending State Post-Conviction Review

7/11/2013

Jeffrey Weisheit

Pending State Post-Conviction Review

11/26/2013

William Clyde Gibson III

State Post-conviction denied, appeal pending

8/15/2014

William Clyde Gibson III

State Post-conviction denied, appeal pending

Hicks, Larry

1978

New trial granted by trial court, two weeks before scheduled execution; acquitted on retrial, 11/20/1980.

Judy, Steven

1980

Executed, March 9, 1981, after waiving non-mandatory appeals.

Hollis, David

1982

Suicide while awaiting appeal.

Dillon, Richard

1981

New trial ordered on federal habeas, Dillon v. Duckworth, 751 F.2d 895 (7th Cir. 1984);Pled to term of years prior to retrial. 

Vandiver, William

1984

Executed, October 16, 1985, after waiving all non-mandatory appeals.

Thompson, Jay

1982

Death vacated on direct appeal; remanded for new judge sentencing based on jury recommendation against death, Thompson v. State, 492 N.E.2d 264 (1986); resentenced to sixty years.

Patton, Keith

1984

Guilty plea vacated on state PCR, Patton v. State, 517 N.E.2d 374 (1987).  Sentenced to 120 years at

Trial, 3/17/1990.

Martinez-Chavez, Eladio

1985

Death vacated on direct appeal; Indiana Supreme Court orders sixty year sentence imposed. Martinez-Chavez v. State,

534 N.E.2d 731 (1989).

Cooper, Paula

1986

Death vacated on direct appeal; Indiana Supreme Court orders sixty year sentence imposed, Cooper v. State, 540 N.E.2d 1216 (1989).

Smith, Charles

1983

New trial ordered on appeal of state PCR, Smith v. State, 547 N.E.2d 817 (1989); DP request dropped before new trial; acquitted on all counts. 5/9/1991

Thacker, Lois

1985

Death vacated on direct appeal; Indiana Supreme Court orders sixty year sentence imposed, Thacker v. State, 556 N.E.2d 1315 (1990).

Brewer, James

1978

New penalty phase ordered on federal habeas, Brewer v. Aiken, 925 F.2d 850 (7th. Cir. 1991); fifty-five year plea bargain.

Williams, Larry

1980

New penalty phase ordered on appeal of state PCR, Williams v. State, 525 N.E.2d 1238 (1988); DP request dropped; sentenced to sixty years, 2/28/1992.

Harris, James

1984

Plea bargain for term of years entered during state PCR hearing, 1992.

Jackson, Donald

1988

Death vacated on direct appeal; remanded for imposition of term of years, Jackson v. State, 597 N.E.2d 950 (1992).

Evans, Charles

1986

Death vacated on direct appeal; remanded for imposition of term of years, Evans v. State, 598 N.E.2d 516 (1992).

Landress, Cindy Lou

1989

Death vacated on direct appeal; remanded for imposition of term of years, Landress v. State, 600 N.E.2d 938 (1992).

Bellmore, Larry

1986

Death vacated on direct appeal; remanded for new sentencing determination, Bellmore v. State, 602 N.E.2d 111 (1992); while rehearing pending, Tr.Ct. resentenced to 60 years, 11/29/1993.

Boyd, Russell

1983

Sentence vacated by PCR court in summary judgment, 1993.  Pled to 80 years while resentencing pending.

Kennedy, Stuart

1988, 1992

Death vacated on direct appeal; remanded for imposition of term of years, Kennedy v. State, 620 N.E.2d 17 (1993).

James, Victor

1991

Sentence vacated on direct appeal, James v. State,  613 N.E.2d 15 (1993); remanded for new penalty phase; death penalty dropped pending new penalty phase, 12/6/1993.

Spencer, Terry (Lowery)

1985

Pled guilty, for 60 year sentence, pending state PCR, 1994.

Resnover, Gregory

1981

Executed, December 8, 1994, after exhausting appeals.

Roark, Dennis

1989, 1992

1989 conviction and death sentence reversed & remanded for new trial, Roark v. State, 573 N.E.2d 881 (1991). Reconvicted and resentenced to death, 1991. 1992 death sentence reversed and 200 year sentence imposed, Roark v. State (1994), 644 N.E.2d 565.

Benirschke, William

1988

Pled guilty, for 140 year sentence, pending state PCR, 1995.

Potts, Larry D.

1988

Pled guilty, for 210 year sentence, pending state PCR, 1995.

Castor, Marvin D.

1988

Sentence vacated on direct appeal, Castor v. State, 587 N.E.2d 1281 (1992); remanded for new penalty phase; Death penalty request dismissed pending resentencing, 1995.

Davis, Frank

1984

State agreed to resentencing during PCR; resentenced to two 60-year terms, 7/10/1996.

Smith, Tommie

1981

Executed, July 18, 1996, after exhausting appeals.

Schiro, Thomas

1981

Sentence vacated on appeal of third post-conviction petition, Schiro v. State, 669 N.E.2d 1357 (1996).

Huffman, Richard

1985

Conviction set aside on PCR; pled pending retrial, 8/5/1996.

Underwood, Herbert

1985

Conviction set aside on PCR; on retrial, jury acquitted on felony supporting aggravator; state dismissed DP, 8/30/1996.

Spranger, William

1983

Sentence vacated on PCR; on resentencing, judge imposed 60-year term, 11/6/1997.

Burris, Gary

1981

Executed after exhausting appeals, November 20, 1997.

Lockhart, Michael Lee

1989

Executed in Texas for crime committed there, December 9, 1997.

Smith, Robert

1996

Executed after waiving non-mandatory appeals, January 29, 1998.

VanCleave, Gregory

1983

Sentence vacated on PCR; resentencing judge found state had not proved aggravating circumstance and dismissed death penalty request, 6/5/1998.

Games, James

1984

Sentence vacated on PCR; DP dismissed by agreement pending resentencing, 1999.

McCollum, Phillip

1985

DP dismissed by agreement pending appeal of PCR denial, 2/17/1999.

Townsend, Johnny, Jr.

1985

DP dismissed by agreement pending appeal of PCR denial, 1999.

Fleenor, D. H.

1984

Executed after exhausting appeals, but declining clemency request, December 9, 1999

Rondon, Reynaldo

1985

Sentence set aside on PCR; pled pending new penalty phase, 8/2/2000.

Vincent Prowell

1994

Conviction and sentence set aside on PCR, Prowell v. State, 741 N.E.2d 704 (2001); DP dismissed pending new trial, 3/19/2002.

Gerald Bivins

1992

Executed after waiving federal habeas corpus review, March 14, 2001.

John Ingle

1998

Death sentence set aside on direct appeal, May 8, 2001, due to insufficiency of evidence on aggravators; remanded for entry of term of years.

Jim Lowery

1983

Executed after exhausting appeals, June 27, 2001.

Perry Steven Miller

1991

Conviction and death sentence vacated on federal habeas corpus review, June 29, 2001; pled to 138 years, August 7, 2001.

Alton Coleman

1986

Executed in Ohio for a crime committed there, April 26, 2002.

Jerry Thompson

1996

Stabbed while direct appeal was pending, 10/27/2002.

Kevin Lee Hough

1987

Executed after exhausting appeals, May 2, 2003

Joseph Trueblood

1990

Executed after exhausting appeals, June 13, 2003

Gamba Rastafari

1987

Death sentence vacated on successor PCR due to mental retardation.  Appeal dismissed 12/3/2003.

Benny Saylor

1994

Override death sentence vacated on PCR petition for rehearing, on state constitutional grounds, May 21, 2004.

Darnell Williams

1987

Death sentence commuted to life without parole by Gov. Joe Kernan, July 2, 2004.

Walter Dye

1998

Pled to LWOP pending new trial, November 8, 2004.

William Minnick

1982

Override death sentence vacated on successor PCR petition, December 1, 2004.

Michael Daniels

1979

Death sentence commuted to life without parole by Gov. Joe Kernan, January 7, 2005.

Donald Ray Wallace

1982

Executed after exhausting appeals, March 10, 2005.

Bill Benefiel

1988

Executed after exhausting appeals, April 21, 2005.

Gregory Scott Johnson

1986

Executed after exhausting appeals, May 25, 2005.

Keith Canaan

1986

Death sentence reversed on federal habeas review, 395 F.3d 376 (7^th Cir. 2005); DP dismissed by agreement pending resentencing, 6/7/2005.

Phillip Stroud

2002

Death sentence reversed on direct appeal, 809 N.E.2d 274 (Ind. 2004); DP dismissed by agreement pending resentencing, 6/30/2005.

Kevin Conner

1988

Executed after exhausting appeals, July 27, 2005.

Arthur Baird

1987

Death sentence commuted to life without parole by Gov. Mitch Daniels, August 29, 2005.

Alan Matheney

1990

Executed after exhausting appeals, September 28, 2005.

Obadyah Ben-Yisrayl

1992

Sentenced to death in both Lake and Porter Counties.  Lake County sentence was reversed August 10, 2004.  Porter County conviction and sentence were reversed December 13, 2005, and the state has not retried him.

Charles Barker

1996

Death sentence reversed and remanded for new penalty phase on Direct Appeal; sentenced to LWOP pursuant to agreement while new penalty phase was pending, December 19, 2005.

Roche, Charles

1990

Committed suicide while awaiting a new penalty phase, January 10, 2006.

Bieghler, Marvin

1983

Executed after exhausting appeals, January 27, 2006.

Moore, Richard D.

(1980)

2000

Died of cancer at age 75, December 23, 2006.

Aki-Khuam, Akeem

1993

Conviction & death sentence reversed on federal habeas review , 328 F.3d 366 (7^th Cir. 2003); pled pending retrial, March 30, 2007.

Woods, David Leon

1985

Executed after exhausting appeals, May 4, 2007.

Lambert, Michael

1992

Executed after exhausting appeals, June 15, 2007.

Timberlake, Norman

1995

Died of natural causes November 10, 2007.

Ben-Yisrayl, Chijoke Bomani

1984

Death sentence vacated in state post-conviction proceedings,  738 N.E.2d 253 (Ind. 2000); state dismissed death penalty request pending new penalty phase, January 17, 2008.

Harrison, James Patrick

1991

Conviction and death sentence vacated in federal habeas proceedings, 428 F.3d 652 (7^th Cir. 2005); pled to 150 years pending re-trial, May 5, 2008.

Azania, Zolo Agona

1982

Death sentence set aside twice on state PCR; while pending third penalty phase, resolved by sentencing agreement, October 17, 2008.

Stevens, Christopher

1995

Death sentence set aside in federal habeas proceedings, 489 F.3d 883 (7^th Cir. 2007) ; lwop sentencing agreement reached September 23, 2009.

Wrinkles, Matthew Eric

1995

Executed after exhausting appeals, December 10, 2009.

Wisehart, Mark

1983

Conviction and death sentence vacated in federal habeas proceedings, 408 F.3d 321 (7^th Cir. 2005); pled to 75 years pending retrial, September 1, 2010.

Daniel Wilkes

2008

Death sentence vacated and LWOP imposed by PCR court after learning that jury deadlocked 11-1 for LWOP at trial, August 12, 2011.

Howard Allen

1988

F.Dist. Ct. vacated DP after finding Allen to have mental retardation.  State dismissed its appeal pursuant to sentencing agreement June 4, 2013.

Tommy Pruitt

2003

7^th Cir. Vacated DP after finding Pruitt to have mental retardation, June 2, 2015.

Paul McManus

2002

7^th Cir. Vacated convictions and death sentence after finding that McManus had been incompetent to stand trial.  Pled to LWOP while awaiting retrial, August 6, 2015.