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Jail or Agency: Harris County; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: 4/3/2016; Date of death: 4/5/2016; Age at death: 46; Sources: Texas Commission on Jail Standards, www.houstonpress.com, Harris County District Clerk
County judge Lina Hidalgo tweeted that the man was the first local fatality from the variant. It is believed to be the first known recorded Omicron death in the United States, ABC News reported. ...
More executions have taken place in Harris County than in every individual state aside from Texas, and more than Alabama and Georgia combined. [4] As of 2017, the county had executed 126 people since the 1976 legalization of capital punishment, leading it to be referred to as the "death penalty capital of the world."
Following the verdict, a Harris County District Attorney's prosecutor announced they would challenge the judge's decision through the Court of Appeals. [25] [26] On August 17, 2022, the same judge who initially declined to sign the death warrant in May, signed Brown's execution warrant, with the execution date set for March 9, 2023. [6] [27]
Prior to 1923, Harris County took responsibility for executions of inmates in criminal cases involving the county. [17] In 1853 the first execution in Houston took place in public at Founder's Cemetery in the Fourth Ward ; initially the cemetery was the execution site, but post-1868 executions took place in the jail facilities. [ 18 ]
Harris County Medical Examiner On May 31, 2017, John Hernandez was murdered by Terry Thompson during a fight outside a restaurant in Sheldon, Texas , part of the Greater Houston area. During the altercation, Thompson's wife, Chauna Thompson, a Harris County Sheriff 's deputy, arrived and called for assistance.
Harold Dean Clouse Jr. and Tina Linn Clouse, formerly known as the Harris County Does, were a pair of formerly unidentified murder victims found outside of Houston, Texas in January, 1981. [1] After moving in the summer of 1980 with their infant daughter, Holly Marie, from Volusia County, Florida to Lewisville, Texas , [ 2 ] the Clouses stopped ...
Houston National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in Harris County, Texas, near Houston. [1] [2] It encompasses 419.2 acres (169.6 ha) only about half of which is developed. The cemetery had more than 111,000 interments as of 2021. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.