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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1960 and 1964. During this period 29 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. [1] [2] Joseph Johnson became the last person in Texas to be executed by the electric chair on July 30, 1964. [3]
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]
Old Sparky at the Tucker Unit, Arkansas.It was used to conduct 104 executions from 1926 to 1948. Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The last person to be executed by electric chair without the choice of an alternative method was Lynda Lyon Block on May 10, 2002, in Alabama. [34] The most recent execution by electric chair was of Nicholas Todd Sutton on February 20, 2020, in Tennessee.
Hamilton was executed on May 10, 1935, at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, by electric chair. [13] [2] Hamilton walked calmly and firmly to the chair and seated himself with the words, "Well, goodbye all." [11] He was preceded in the electric chair by Joe Palmer. [10] [7] [14] Palmer had agreed to go first to give Hamilton time to ...
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Between 1819 and 1923 the method of execution was hanging until Texas authorized the use of the electric chair; the use of the electric chair ended the execution of death sentences by counties in Texas. The chair– often euphemistically called "Old Sparky" was constructed by inmates. [33]