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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]
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.
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.
On death row: 176 [94] Total number executed: 1340 (1800–2024) [19] Due to the number of Texas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages or part of a criminal enterprise with a separate Wikipedia page are listed. The full list is externally linked: Faces of Death Row: The Texas Tribune; List of death row inmates in Texas
Linda Carty. Linda Anita Carty (born 5 October 1958) is a Kittitian -American [ a] former schoolteacher who is on death row in Texas. In February 2002, she was sentenced to death for the abduction and murder in 2001 of 20-year-old Joana Rodriguez in order to steal Rodriguez's newborn son. [ 3][ 4] Carty claimed she was framed by her co ...
He was sentenced to death in 1999 after robbing and killing a Greenville convenience store employee, Irene Graves, in 1997. Death row inmate Freddie Owens received an execution notice on June 1.
Carl Wayne Buntion (March 30, 1944 – April 21, 2022) [2] was an American man convicted of capital murder in Texas and sentenced to death. On April 21, 2022, at the age of 78, he became the oldest inmate to be executed in Texas and the state's first execution of 2022.
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.