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Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, has executed 591 offenders since the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in 1982 with the Brooks execution) to October 1, 2024 (the execution of Garcia Glen White)—more than a third of the national total. [2]
From 1924 to 1964, 361 people were executed in this way. [2] After an 18-year gap following Furman v. Georgia, executions were resumed following new capital-punishment laws passed by the State of Texas (and upheld in Gregg v. Georgia, which also included a companion case from Texas), among them changing the method of execution to lethal injection.
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. 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.
Gardner became the first inmate put to death this year in Texas and the U.S. Seven other executions are scheduled in the next few months in Texas, the nation’s busiest capital punishment state ...
The high court's action cleared the way for the Texas Criminal Justice Department to proceed in putting Billie Wayne Coble, 70, to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. CST (0000 GMT), as scheduled ...
Billy Joe Wardlow, 45, is set to be put to death at 6 p.m. (2300 GMT) at the state's execution chamber in Huntsville for the murder of Carl Cole, 82, in 1993. Texas has executed more prisoners ...
The defense had Delbert Burkett brought from prison to testify. Delbert begged the jury to spare his son's life, saying he had been a horrible father who failed his son and his family. After Delbert left the courtroom, two women broke down in tears. Jason would be spared execution by two votes. [3] [6]
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]