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Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night just feet from the execution chamber where he was set to be put to death for the murder of his toddler – even as the ...
Robert Leslie Roberson III (born November 10, 1966) is an American man convicted and on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Roberson was accused of shaking his daughter and causing her death, and was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2003. He has lost his appeals since. [1] [2]
The Huntsville Unit, the location of the siege. The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas. The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in United States history. [1]
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 ]
Huntsville Unit's yard during the 1870s. The prison's first inmates arrived on October 2, 1849. [5] The unit was named after the County of Huntsville. [6] Robert Perkinson, the author of Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire, wrote that the unit was, within Texas, "the first public work of any importance".
Garrett was tried and convicted of the crime. [3] He was held at Ellis Unit, north of Huntsville, Texas, which at the time held men on the State of Texas's death row. [4] He was originally scheduled to be executed on January 6, 1992, but after Pope John Paul II asked for clemency, Governor of Texas Ann Richards gave him a temporary reprieve.
There are currently 177 people on death row in Texas, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state has executed 582 people since 1976. This story has been updated with new information
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 ]