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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 15 February 2025. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1982 (when the state resumed executions) to 1989. All of the 33 people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. [1] [2]
Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012.
Lucio is one of seven women on death row in Texas, which includes 174 condemned inmates in all. No execution date has been set for Lucio since the Criminal Court of Appeals ordered Nelson to ...
County Method Victim(s) Governor 1 Wilford Berry Jr. White 36 M February 19, 1999 Cuyahoga: Lethal injection: Charles Mitroff Bob Taft: 2 Jay D. Scott: Black 48 M June 14, 2001 Vinnie M. Price 3 John William Byrd Jr. White 38 M February 19, 2002 Hamilton: Monte Tewksbury 4 Alton Coleman: Black 46 M April 26, 2002 Tonnie Storey and Marlene Walters 5
Melissa Elizabeth Lucio has been on death row for over a decade after being convicted of capital murder in the February 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah Alvarez. Lucio's lawyers have ...
Martin Edward Gurule (November 7, 1969 – November 27, 1998) was an American prisoner who successfully escaped from death row in Texas in 1998. It was the first successful breakout from Texan death row since Raymond Hamilton was broken out by Bonnie and Clyde on January 16, 1934.
With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as ...