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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 22 people have been executed since 2020. To date, 22 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 .
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 17 August 2024. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [ 1]
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.
Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 87 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois . Robert Gregory Bowers.
The State of Texas Death Row seal, taken at the Polunsky Unit. 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.
Hank Skinner. Henry Watkins Skinner (April 4, 1962 – February 16, 2023) was an American death row inmate in Texas. In 1995, he was convicted of bludgeoning to death his live-in girlfriend, Twila Busby, and stabbing to death her two adult sons, Randy Busby and Elwin Caler. On March 24, 2010, twenty minutes before his scheduled execution ...
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.
Anthony Charles Graves (born August 29, 1965) is the 138th exonerated death row inmate in America. [ 1] With no record of violence, [ 1] he was arrested at 26 years old, wrongfully convicted, and incarcerated for 18 years before finally being exonerated and released. [ 2] He was awarded $1.4 million for the time he spent imprisoned, [ 3] and ...