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Brown was beaten to death by two inmates who were later charged with aggravated assault causing bodily injury, authorities told Houston Press. 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 ...
As of 2024 the Harris County jail facilities together have a capacity for 9,575 inmates; at time they have held over 12,000. Due to a state-mandated staffing ratio, the HCSO had to ship inmates to other jails, including some in Louisiana; in June 2010 1,600 Harris County inmates were serving time at other jails. By January 2012 the Harris ...
Lucky Ward (born November 1, 1964) is an African-American man who was convicted of strangling two people in September 2010 in Houston, Texas, while he was homeless. [1] He was accused of committing four other homicides, one dating back to 1985, none of which were ever prosecuted. [2]
Prior to 1923, Harris County took responsibility for executions of inmates in criminal cases involving the county. [16] 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. [17] In 1923 the ...
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in the 1,118 square miles (2,900 km 2) of unincorporated area of Harris County, serving as the equivalent of the county police for the approximately 1,071,485 people living in the unincorporated areas of the county. In Texas, sheriffs and their deputies are fully empowered ...
He was sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Dennise Hayslip, and her other boyfriend, Darren Cain, on 30 April 1998. Thompson made headlines in 2005 by escaping from Harris County Jail in Houston , Texas , after a re-sentencing hearing where he was sentenced to death for a second time, using a forged ID badge, claiming to be with ...
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.
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]