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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 25 people have been executed since 2020. To date, 25 people have been executed since 2020. All of the people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
Tabler's execution is set for 6 p.m. CT / 7 p.m. ET at a state prison in Huntsville, Texas, just north of Houston. The Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the prison that houses Death Row inmates in ...
From 1924 to 1964, 361 people were executed in this way. [2] After an 18-year gap following Furman v. Georgia, executions were resumed following new capital-punishment laws passed by the State of Texas (and upheld in Gregg v. Georgia, which also included a companion case from Texas), among them changing the method of execution to lethal injection.
Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, has executed 592 offenders since the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in 1982 with the Brooks execution) to February 5, 2025 (the execution of Steven Lawayne Nelson)—more than a third of the national total. [2]
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Garcia Glen White is pictured recently at the Texas prison where he has been housed ahead of his execution scheduled for Oct. 1, 2024, for the murders of identical twin 16-year-old sisters.
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 February 13, 2025 James Dennis Ford: 64 36 28 Male White Florida: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 Richard Lee Tabler: 46 25 21 Texas: Profile: 3 March 7, 2025 Brad Keith Sigmon: 67 43 24 South Carolina: To be determined: Profile: 4 ...
The scheduled execution of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter has been halted after the Texas Supreme Court issued a partial stay late Thursday night ...