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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 11 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.
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.
Ivan Cantu, who's on death row and scheduled to be executed on Feb. 28, ... Texas is the state with the most executions in the country: 586 since 1976. In 2023, eight inmates were executed.
FILE - This undated photo provided by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Stephen Barbee, a Texas death row inmate. Barbee, seeking to stop his execution over claims of religious ...
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.
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.
Summary of scheduled executions. As of August 13, 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 six U.S. states. [ 2] There are a total of 16 pending motions to set an execution date across seven states. [ 3]