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Huntsville Unit. Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit (HV), nicknamed " Walls Unit ", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States. The approximately 54.36-acre (22.00 ha) facility, near downtown Huntsville, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal ...
O.B. Ellis Unit. O. B. Ellis Unit (E1, previously Ellis I Unit[1]) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison located in unincorporated Walker County, Texas, [2] 12 miles (19 km) north of Huntsville. The unit, with about 11,427 acres (4,624 ha) of space, now houses up to 2,400 male prisoners. [3] Ellis is situated in a wooded area ...
The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is the main prison cemetery in Texas, located in Huntsville and operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The colloquial name for the cemetery is Peckerwood Hill. The name originates from "Peckerwood", an insult towards poor white people, [1] because many of those buried at the cemetery were poor.
List of people executed in Texas, 1950–1959. The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1950 and 1959. During this period 76 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. [ 1][ 2] Three electrocutions took place on September 5, 1951; though no intervening law to prohibit multiple ...
During this period 122 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. [1] [2] Executions 1930–1939 ... Death Row 1923-1973. Texas Department ...
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty).Thus, Charles Brooks Jr. was not only the first person executed in the 1980 decade, he was also the first person executed since Texas resumed the death penalty.
Executions 1990–1999. The number in the "#" column indicates the n th person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty). As an example, Jerome Butler (the first person executed in Texas during the 1990 decade) was the 34th person executed since resumption of the death penalty. 1990 – 4 executions.
The death chamber and the steel bars of the viewing room are seen at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, U.S. on September 29, 2010. A death row inmate's letters: Read vulnerable, ...