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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 .
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 22 July 2024. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]
Details. Date. June 27, 1990. Killed. 1. Weapon. .357 Magnum revolver [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.
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 following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 2010 and 2019. All of the 120 people (117 males and 3 females) during this period were convicted of murder and executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
Summary of scheduled executions. As of August 1, 2024, a total of 37 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in seven U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 17 pending motions to set an execution date across eight states. [3]
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 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.