Lists of people executed in Texas

The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819-1849, is divided into periods of ten years. Since 1819, 1,228 individuals (all but six of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 16 November 2011 (2011 -11-16). Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place.[1] During the American Civil War, three Confederate deserters and a man convicted of attempted rape were executed by firing squad.[1] The law was changed in 1923 requiring executions to be carried out in the electric chair at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. From 1924 to 1964, 361 people were executed in this way.[2]

After an eighteen-year gap, executions were resumed following new capital punishment laws passed by the State of Texas, among them changing the method of execution to lethal injection. Since 1982, 477 individuals (all of whom were convicted of murder) have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit.[3] The number is four times as many as Virginia (the state with the second-highest total of executions in the post-Gregg era) and over 36 times as many as California (the state with the largest number of death row inmates; California has not executed anyone since January 2006).

Contents

Executions from 1819

See also

Texas portal
Law portal


References

  1. ^ a b The Espy File: 1608–2002. Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
  2. ^ List of Electrocuted Offenders. Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
  3. ^ List of Executed Offenders. Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved 27 October 2011.

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