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The number is over four times as many as Oklahoma [4] (the state with the second-highest total of executions in the post-Gregg era and the only one with a higher execution rate) and over 37 times as many as California (the state with the largest number of death row inmates; [5] California has not executed anyone since January 2006, and has a ...
1871 – 4 executions # Executed person Race Age Sex Date of execution Crime(s) Governor 48: Henry Miller: Black – M: 28-Jul-1871: Murder: Edmund J. Davis
1880 – 13 executions # Executed person Race Age Sex Date of execution Crime(s) Governor 98: Samuel Houston Myers [2]: White – M: 19-Mar-1880: Murder: Oran Milo Roberts
Under the Spanish Province of Texas – 1 execution # Executed person Race Age Sex Date of execution Crime(s) President/Governor 1: George Brown: White – M: November 1819: Piracy: Antonio María Martínez: Under the Mexican State of Coahuila y Tejas – 1 execution 2: Joseph Clayton: unknown – M: July 1834: Murder: Juan José Elguézabal ...
0–9. List of people executed in Texas, 1819–1849; List of people executed in Texas, 1850–1859; List of people executed in Texas, 1860–1869; List of people executed in Texas, 1870–1879
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death. [1] [2] It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthaginians, and Romans, [1] among others. Crucifixion has been used in some countries as recently as the 21st century. [3]
Crucifixion. Roping or nailing to a wooden cross or similar apparatus (such as a tree) and leaving to perish. The crucifixion of Jesus is the most notable instance of this method. Gibbeting. The victim is placed in cage hanging from a gallows-type structure in a public location and left to die to deter other existing or potential criminals ...
1850 – 3 executions # Executed person Race Age Sex Date of execution Crime(s) Governor 10: Howard Slaughter: White – M: 28-Dec-1850: Murder: Peter Hansborough Bell: 11 (Name not known) Hispanic – M: 28-Dec-1850: Murder 12 (Name not known) Hispanic – M: 28-Dec-1850: Murder 1853 – 1 execution 13: Jane Elkins: Black: 53: F: 27-May-1853 ...