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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1920 and 1929. A total of 66 people were executed during this period. From 1920 to 1923, ten people were executed by hanging. [1] The last hanging in the state was that of Nathan Lee, a man convicted of murder and executed in Brazoria County on August 31, 1923
The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 19 January 2025. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]
Roy Mitchell was an African-American man from Waco, Texas who was convicted of six murders and executed on July 30, 1923. His arrest, trial, conviction, and execution are considered an example of continued bigotry in the Texas judicial system of the 1920s, but also of reforms aimed at curbing mob violence and public lynching. [1]
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1890 and 1899. ... execution Crime(s) Governor ... This page was last edited on 20 March ...
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The prison houses 2,937 prisoners and at least 180 of them, like Cantu, are awaiting execution. Cantu, who was born in Dallas 50 years ago, was sentenced to death in October 2001.
Rainey Bethea, last public hanging in Kentucky, for rape and murder (14 August 1936) Roscoe "Red" Jackson, last public hanging in U.S., for murder (21 May 1937) Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary (31 July 1940) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (9 April 1945) Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard and war criminal (13 December 1945)