The Eleventh Circuit has stayed the execution of Florida Death Row inmate John Ferguson, a paranoid schizophrenic, a day after it vacated its previous stay and sent Ferguson’s attorneys rushing to the U.S. Supreme Court for emergency action. 

Read the Order that stopped the October 23, 2012, execution here.

These are temporary holds while more

Hat tip to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty for keeping an online execution schedule, which we’ve reviewed and noticed that Ohio is beating even Texas in capital punishment in the upcoming months — Ohio has 9 executions set; Texas has 8; Pennsylvania, Florida, and South Dakota each have one execution on their

1.  Larry Ray Swearingen, Texas Death Row

Larry Swearingen maintains his innocence and his attorneys are fighting to have some tribunal hear what they are arguing is new evidence, uncovered since his trial, that proves Larry Swearingen is innocent of the killing of a Texas coed, Melissa Trotter – this includes both DNA evidence and circumstantial

We’ve written about the conditions over on California’s Death Row and how at least one inmate has made the news requesting the death penalty because life would be better for him on Death Row rather than serving life imprisonment at another California facility.  (Read our posts about Billy Joe Johnson here.)

Now, a