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Capital murder. Criminal penalty. Death ( stay of execution issued on April 25, 2022) Melissa Elizabeth Lucio (born June 18, 1969) is the first woman of Latino descent to be sentenced to death in the U.S. state of Texas. She was convicted of capital murder after the death of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah, who was found to have scattered ...
Criminal status. On death row. Conviction (s) Capital murder (two counts) Criminal penalty. Death (December 12, 1995) Michael Dean Gonzales (born September 1, 1973) [1] is an American man convicted of capital murder in Texas and sentenced to death row .
The seven inmates involved in the escape. Top row, left to right, Joseph Garcia, Randy Halprin, Larry James Harper, and Patrick Murphy Jr. Bottom row, left to right, Donald Newbury, George Rivas, and Michael Anthony Rodriguez. The Texas 7 were a group of prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000.
At least eight death row inmates in the state have committed suicide in the last 20 years, according to prison records consulted by The Texas Tribune. The most recent took place on Jan. 21 , when ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 21 people have been executed since 2020. To date, 21 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 .
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.
November 13, 1997. Location (s) Channelview, Texas. Weapons. .30-06 hunting rifle. Coy Wayne "Elvis" Wesbrook (February 1, 1958 [1] – March 9, 2016) was an American mass murderer, convicted for the killing of five people in Channelview, Texas, on November 13, 1997. Wesbrook fatally shot his ex-wife, Gloria Jean Coons, her female roommate, and ...
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 1 August 2024. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]