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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]
Gonzales lived next door to Manuel (age 73) and Merced "Bita" Aguirre (age 65) in Odessa, Texas, for years. [2] On the evening of April 21, 1994, Gonzales broke into the Aguirre home while they were sleeping. [2] [3] The Aguirres awoke, and Gonzales stabbed the Aguirres and then burglarized the home.
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth 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.
Texas prosecutors had urged the U.S. Supreme Court in a filing Wednesday evening to reject the emergency appeal brought by Roberson's legal team in the wake of an earlier decision from the state's ...
DALLAS (AP) — A 78-year-old prisoner who says he killed about 90 people over nearly four decades as he moved around the country pleaded guilty to murder Thursday in the 1994 strangulation of a ...
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 ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1982 (when the state resumed executions) to 1989. All of the 33 people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. [1] [2]
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 6 February 2025. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]