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Jerry H. Hodge Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a state prison for men in Rusk, Texas; it is on Farm to Market Road 2972, west of Texas State Highway 69 North. It opened in March 1995. [1] It is on a 58-acre (23 ha) lot, co-located with the Skyview Unit. [1] It has a capacity of 989 prisoners.
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Texas. The list of names should be complete as of ...
Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit (HV), nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States.The approximately 54.36-acre (22.00 ha) facility, near downtown Huntsville, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [1]
Michael James Perry (April 9, 1982 – July 1, 2010) and Jason Aaron Burkett (born July 31, 1982) were American spree killers who killed three people in Texas in 2001. They were both tried and convicted of capital murder for the killings.
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
[27] [28] Unanimously, the seven-member panel of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected the clemency plea of Gonzales on June 24, 2024, and additionally rejected granting him a six-month reprieve. [29] On June 26, 2024, 41-year-old Ramiro Felix Gonzales was put to death via lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit.
United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute houses the federal government execution chamber Huntsville Unit houses the Texas execution chamber; it is the most active execution chamber in the United States, with 528 executions between 1982 and 2015. [3]
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 3, 2025, the 119th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.