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Huntsville Unit, the site of executions in the State of Texas. Medellín was executed at 9:57 p.m. CST on August 5, 2008, after a 3-hour delay while the Supreme Court heard a late appeal, which was denied. [11] [12] He is buried at Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery along with Cantu and O'Brien. [13] [14]
The number is over four times as many as Oklahoma [4] (the state with the second-highest total of executions in the post-Gregg era and the only one with a higher execution rate) and over 37 times as many as California (the state with the largest number of death row inmates; [5] California has not executed anyone since January 2006, and has a ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1990 and 1999. All of the 166 people (165 males and 1 female) during this period were convicted of murder and executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.
With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as ...
Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in the US in 2025. ... Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed. Graig Graziosi. February 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM ...
Medellín v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491 (2008), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that held even when a treaty constitutes an international commitment, it is not binding domestic law unless it has been implemented by an act of the U.S. Congress or contains language expressing that it is "self-executing" upon ratification. [1]
The Polunsky Unit, where death row inmates are held in Texas, is pictured on May 21, 2013 in Livingston, Texas, about 40 miles from Huntsville. ... according to the Death Penalty Information ...