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Donald Newbury, TDCJ#999403, [36] was executed by lethal injection on February 4, 2015, at 18:25. Joseph Garcia, TDCJ#999441, [37] was executed by lethal injection on December 4, 2018, at 18:43. The remaining two members are incarcerated on death row at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, located in West Livingston. [38]
The TDCJ website has stated since at least 2012 that "this offender declined to make a last statement." [7] However, there are last words of Garrett reported from the time of execution re-quoted frequently, and reported by APBnews as: "I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. The rest of the world can kiss my ever-loving ...
The 54-year-old is the third person to be put to death in Texas this year, and the 11th in the US. As of 2011, death row inmates in Texas cannot request a final meal, meaning Burton had to choose ...
The TDCJ keeps an online record of all of its executions, including race, age, county of origin, and last words. [65] The TDCJ is the only corrections agency in the US to extensively catalog the last words of executed inmates, and the only one to post the last words, other than the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR ...
Last Words of the Executed is a book by Robert K. Elder published in 2010. Studs Terkel contributed a foreword. The book documents the final words of death row inmates in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The chapters are organized by era and method of execution.
Riles received execution dates of June 18, 1980, and March 17, 1982, for which he received stays of execution. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In early 1985, Riles was one of ten Texas death row prisoners who signed a petition asking to be executed in lieu of pursuing further appeals. [ 15 ]
Lester Leroy Bower Jr. (November 20, 1947 – June 3, 2015) was an American man executed for the 1983 murders of four men in Grayson County, Texas. [1] Bower spent 31 years on death row and received six stays of execution.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice refuses to release records, so the claim cannot be supported or contradicted. [59] Ageorges-Skinner has received the official support of the French Government in her persistent efforts to save her husband from execution and prove his innocence. France generally opposes the death penalty in all cases. [60]