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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas for murder, and participation in a felony resulting in death if committed by an individual who has attained or is over the age of 18. In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the world to carry out an execution by lethal injection, when it executed Charles Brooks Jr.
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty).As an example, John Steven Gardner (the first person executed in Texas during the 2020 decade) was the 568th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.
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, 1,341 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 11 August 2024. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [ 1]
Capital punishment abolished or struck down. Capital punishment is a legal penalty. In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. [ b][ 1] It is also a legal penalty for some military ...
Retrieved 2019-04-25. ^ Tribune, The Texas; McCullough, Jolie (2019-04-24). "Texas executes John William King in racist dragging death of James Byrd Jr". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2019-04-25. ^ "Georgia executes man convicted of 1994 killings of 2 women". Las Vegas Review Journal. 2019-05-02.
Indeed, at least 196 people sentenced to death in the United States since 1973 have been exonerated, 16 of them in Texas, according to the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center.
List of people executed in Texas, 1950–1959. 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] Three electrocutions took place on September 5, 1951; though no intervening law to prohibit multiple ...
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 .