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Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, has executed 591 offenders since the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in 1982 with the Brooks execution) to October 1, 2024 (the execution of Garcia Glen White)—more than a third of the national total. [2]
Since then, Virginia has executed more than 1,300 people, the most of any other state. [3] In the modern, post-Gregg era, Virginia conducted 113 executions, the third most in the country, behind only Texas and Oklahoma. [4] The last execution in the state was on July 6, 2017, when William Morva was executed via lethal injection for murder. [5]
One state has executed by far the most inmates, at 591. ... Texas, 591. Oklahoma, 126. Virginia, 113. ... One June 19 in Texas, the state's Court of Criminal Appeals exonerated Kerry Max Cook ...
However, Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, Florida, and Missouri are the top five states with the highest number of executions–Texas alone has imposed 570 executions since 1976. [198] The racial makeup of the people sentenced to death reveals a disproportionate representation of Black people.
The facility, the oldest Texas state prison, opened in 1849. [2] The unit houses the execution chamber of the State of Texas. It is the most active execution chamber in the United States, with 591 (as of October 1, 2024) [3] executions since 1982, when the death penalty was reinstated in Texas (see Lists of people executed in Texas). [4]
The Court found a "national consensus" based on state laws and jury sentencing behavior. At the time of the decision, 20 states had the juvenile death penalty on the books, but only six states had executed prisoners since 1989 for crimes committed as juveniles. Only three states had done so since 1994: Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia.
The execution of a Texas inmate condemned for fatally shooting an 80-year-old woman more than two decades ago was set to proceed Tuesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court ...
1 By state. 2 By year. 3 Other. ... Lists of people executed in Texas; List of people executed in Utah; ... List of people executed in West Virginia;