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The March to Abolish the Death Penalty is the current name of an event organized each October since 2000 by several Texas anti-death penalty organizations, including: Texas Moratorium Network; the Austin chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty; the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement; and Texas Students Against the Death Penalty. [70]
Field Marshal Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala GCB GCSI FRS (6 December 1810 – 14 January 1890) was a British Indian Army officer. He fought in the First Anglo-Sikh War and the Second Anglo-Sikh War before seeing action as chief engineer during the second relief of Lucknow in March 1858 during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 .
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Huntsville Unit, the location of the State of Texas execution chamber. 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 20 February 2025.
In its initial petition, the committee argued Roberson’s testimony was key to its examination of a state law, Article 11.073 – more commonly referred to as the state’s “junk science” law.
Most members of the state's Republican-led House of Representatives previously called for a stay of Roberson's execution, referencing a "junk science" law that should allow Texas prisoners to ...
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty). As an example, Earl Carl Heiselbetz Jr. (the first person executed in Texas during the 2000 decade) was the 200th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.