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Ivan Abner Cantu (June 14, 1973 – February 28, 2024) was an American man from Dallas, Texas, convicted of the double murder of his cousin, James Mosqueda and Mosqueda's girlfriend, Amy Kitchen, who were shot in their home.
Carroll L. "Bud" Pickett (1933 – April 3, 2022) [2] was a Presbyterian minister in Huntsville, Texas. In the 1960s and 1970s, Pickett served as pastor for three churches in Texas. [3] [4] [5] In 1980 he began serving as a chaplain in the Huntsville, Texas, prison, where he spent most of the next 15 years working with prisoners facing imminent ...
Dudley was executed by lethal injection on January 25, 2006, in Huntsville, Texas. [17] He became the first person to be executed by the state of Texas in 2006. [4] Dudley refused to walk to the execution chamber and had to be carried. [18] When asked if he had a final statement to make, he ignored the warden and kept his eyes shut.
James Emery Paster (January 30, 1945 – September 20, 1989) [1] and Stephen Albert McCoy (December 17, 1948 – May 24, 1989) [2] were American serial killers who murdered at least three people in Texas between 1980 and 1981. Both were sentenced to death and executed at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, via lethal injection.
The Texas 7 were a group of prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000. Six of the seven were apprehended over a month later, between January 22–24, 2001, as a direct result of the television show America's Most Wanted .
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 2000 and 2009. All of the 248 people (246 males and 2 females) during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
After a last meal consisting of a T-bone steak, french fries, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, biscuits, peach cobbler and iced tea, [3] [8] Brooks was rolled into the death chamber at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. There he made his final statement. Brooks had converted to Islam while in prison and said a prayer. [9]
Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States. [5] The population was 45,941 as of the 2020 census. [2] It is the center of the Huntsville micropolitan area.