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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 ...
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.
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]
The execution of a Texas inmate condemned for fatally shooting an 80-year-old woman more than two decades ago was set to proceed Tuesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court ...
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a reprieve Tuesday to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago, continuing a more than four-month delay of ...
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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 .
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 .