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Summary of scheduled executions. As of October 4, 2024, a total of 35 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in eight U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 14 pending motions to set an execution date across six states. [3]
Murder of Alijah Mullis. On January 29, 2008, in Galveston County, Texas, three-month-old Alijah Mullis (October 29, 2007 – January 29, 2008), was found dead along a roadside at Seawall Boulevard. Investigations later connected the victim's father as a suspect behind the murder, and the father, Travis James Mullis (September 20, 1986 ...
Another six are scheduled, and more could be added to the calendar. Contributing: Amanda Lee Myers. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Travis James Mullis to be executed in Texas on ...
Texas leads death penalty numbers with over 580 since 1980s. US executes 5 men in 6 days. Texas leads death penalty numbers with over 580 since 1980s. With three days remaining in a six-day span ...
After he filed a clemency petition with the state ahead of his execution, which is scheduled for Oct. 17, ... Texas nearly executed Roberson in 2016, but the process was halted days before by the ...
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 2 October 2024. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]
A Texas inmate who killed his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son more than 17 years ago was executed on Wednesday, after courts rejected his appeals over claims of religious freedom ...
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.