Texas, long a leader in executions, trails this yearBy MICHAEL GRACZYK
A Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago was executed on Tuesday. Gary Green, 51, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the September 2009 deaths of...
Buntion was also the first inmate executed in Texas in 2022. Although Texas has been the nation's busiest capital punishment state, it had been nearly seven months since it carried out an execution. There have been only three executions in each of the last two years, due in part tothe c...
The oldest prison in Texas opened in 1849. Used to be home to the electric chair so it's nickname is "Ol' Sparky". The electric chair took the lives of over 580 inmates. Executions still take place in Huntsville. 3872 FM 350, Livingston, TX 77351 Google Maps Polunsky Unit in Livingst...
McCarthywaspronounceddeadat6:37p.m.localtime(2337GMT)Wednesday, 20minutesafterTexasprisonofficialsbeganadministeringasinglelethaldoseofpentobarbital,theHoustonChroniclereported. McCarthywasthe500thTexasinmateexecutedsincethestateadoptedthepracticeoflethalinjectionin1982andtheeighthTexasprisonerexecutedthisyear. ...
Texas is well known for its use of the death penalty with many executions carried out for heinous crimes every year. Which counties have the most in the state? How many have been carried out in East Texas? Let's take a look at the numbers and some of the crimes committed. ...
Texas is well known for its use of the death penalty with many executions carried out for heinous crimes every year. Which counties have the most in the state? How many have been carried out in East Texas? Let's take a look at the numbers and some of the crimes committed. ...
Texas is well known for its use of the death penalty with many executions carried out for heinous crimes every year. Which counties have the most in the state? How many have been carried out in East Texas? Let's take a look at the numbers and some of the crimes committed. ...
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO RESUME CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, SCHEDULE EXECUTIONS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2003 This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Texas death row inmate Mark Soliz. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP) A friend of Soliz testified that he bragged...
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has at least eight other inmates set to die through July. Last year, 13 convicted killers were put to death in Texas, accounting for nearly half of all the 28 executions carried out nationwide.