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Posthumous pardons for individuals executed before 1950. Inmates who were given life sentences when their country, province or state abolished the death penalty. People who were threatened with death and never jailed. People who were jailed by extralegal groups or courts, for example, as often occurs in cases of sentences of stoning.
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.
With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1990 and 1999. All of the 166 people (165 males and 1 female) during this period were convicted of murder and executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. [1]
The Ellis Unit housed the State of Texas death row for men until mid-1999. Allan B. Polunsky Unit houses the State of Texas death row for men. Huntsville Unit, where Tamayo was put to death. Edgar Tamayo Arias (July 22, 1967 [1] – January 22, 2014 [2]) was a Mexican national sentenced to death in Texas for killing a police officer. [3]
A lawyer for a Texas death row inmate scheduled to be executed next week for his conviction of killing his 2-year-old daughter more than 20 years ago says her client is innocent.
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 3 December 2024. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]
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