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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 4 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 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 .
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas for murder, and participation in a felony resulting in death if committed by an individual who has attained or is over the age of 18. In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the world to carry out an execution by lethal injection, when it executed Charles Brooks Jr.
The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn widespread scrutiny was halted by the Texas Supreme Court late Thursday night as doubts linger over whether his decades-old ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1920 and 1929. A total of 66 people were executed during this period. From 1920 to 1923, ten people were executed by hanging. [1] The last hanging in the state was that of Nathan Lee, a man convicted of murder and executed in Brazoria County on August 31, 1923
The more than two-decade saga of one of El Paso's most disturbing slayings is set to come to an end with the execution of the man convicted in the murder of a 5-year-old girl abducted from a Walmart.
Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night just feet from the execution chamber where he was set to be put to death for the murder of his toddler – even as the ...
Charles Brooks Jr. (1982) first post-Gregg execution in Texas; Cal Coburn Brown (2010) last execution in Washington; Claude Buffet (1972) Henry John Burnett (1963) last execution in Scotland; Edwin Bush (1961) Elizabeth Butchill (1780) Frederick Bywaters (1923) Charles Campbell (1994) Jérôme Carrein (1977) Beatrice Cenci (1599) Brajakishore ...