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And less than an hour later at 7:01 p.m. CT, Texas executed Travis James Mullis in the murder of his 3-month-old son in 2008. Then on Sept. 26 came two more back-to-back executions.
By the end of this week, five men across the United States will have died from execution. Texas leads all-time death penalty numbers. US executes 5 men in 6 days.
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 590 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Travis James Mullis.
Since then, Virginia has executed more than 1,300 people, the most of any other state. [3] In the modern, post-Gregg era, Virginia conducted 113 executions, the third most in the country, behind only Texas and Oklahoma. [4] The last execution in the state was on July 6, 2017, when William Morva was executed via lethal injection for murder. [5]
The first execution in Texas occurred in 1819, with the execution of a white male, George Brown, for piracy. [1] In 1840, a free black male, Henry Forbes, was executed for jail-breaking. [4] Prior to Texas statehood in 1846, eight executions—all by hanging—were carried out. [1] Ellis Unit, which at one time housed the State of Texas male ...
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 February 13, 2025 James Dennis Ford: 64 36 28 Male White Florida: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 Richard Lee Tabler: 46 25 21 Texas: Profile: 3 March 7, 2025 Brad Keith Sigmon: 67 43 24 South Carolina: To be determined: Profile: 4 ...
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 .
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 ...