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Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, has executed 587 offenders since the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in 1982 with the Brooks execution) to February 28, 2024 (the execution of Ivan Abner Cantu )—more than a third of the national total. [2] Even per capita, Texas has the nation's second-highest execution rate, behind only neighboring Oklahoma. [3]
State (s) Texas. Quintin Phillippe Jones (July 15, 1979 – May 19, 2021) was an American man from Livingston, Texas, who was executed for the 1999 killing of his great aunt, Berthena Bryant. [1] [2] Bryant's family and 183,344 other people petitioned Texas Governor Greg Abbott for clemency to commute his death sentence to a life sentence.
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, 1,340 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 23 May 2024. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]
Martin Gurule. Martin Edward Gurule (November 7, 1969 - November 27, 1998) was an American prisoner who successfully escaped from death row in Texas in 1998. It was the first successful breakout from Texan death row since Raymond Hamilton was broken out by Bonnie and Clyde on January 16, 1934.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 20 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. [1]
Allan B. Polunsky Unit ( TL, formerly the Terrell Unit) is a prison in West Livingston, unincorporated Polk County, Texas, United States, located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Livingston along Farm to Market Road 350. [1] [2] The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the facility. The unit houses the State of Texas death row for men, and it has a maximum capacity ...
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists. In the United States, after an ...
Brittany Marlowe Holberg (born January 1, 1973) is a woman on death row in the U.S. state of Texas. On Friday, March 27, 1998, Holberg was convicted of the November 1996 robbery and murder of 80-year-old A. B. Towery Sr. (1916–1996) in his southwest Amarillo home, and was sentenced to death by 251st state District Judge Patrick Pirtle. [1] The victim had been stabbed nearly 60 times with ...