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Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, has executed 591 offenders since the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in 1982 with the Brooks execution) to October 1, 2024 (the execution of Garcia Glen White)—more than a third of the national total. [2]
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 19 January 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, 24 people have been executed since 2020. To date, 24 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 .
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.
Whatever you do, don't call it easy money. Newly freed prisoners in Texas are being compensated richly for their travails, thanks to a new law in the state, which leads the nation in freeing ...
The facility, the oldest Texas state prison, opened in 1849. [2] The unit houses the execution chamber of the State of Texas. It is the most active execution chamber in the United States, with 591 (as of October 1, 2024) [3] executions since 1982, when the death penalty was reinstated in Texas (see Lists of people executed in Texas). [4]
Billy Joe Wardlow, 45, is set to be put to death at 6 p.m. (2300 GMT) at the state's execution chamber in Huntsville for the murder of Carl Cole, 82, in 1993. Texas has executed more prisoners ...
Florida logs reports of serious incidents that occur inside its juvenile prisons, but the state does not maintain a database that allows for the analysis of trends across the system. HuffPost obtained the documents through Florida’s public records law and compiled incident reports logged between 2008 and 2012.