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Jesús Ledesma Aguilar (November 28, 1963 – May 24, 2006) was a Mexican national who became the 365th person executed by the U.S. state of Texas. His execution sparked an international incident between the United States and Mexico, which led to a lawsuit filed by Mexico against the United States in the International Court of Justice, in which ...
Reséndiz's defense attorney along with the assistance of Mexican consul-general in Houston Rodulfo Figueroa Aramoni (consul general, 1998–1999) and other Mexican government officials combined efforts to negotiate with the state of Texas for an extradition to Mexico in hopes to spare Reséndiz's life from the death penalty.
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, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 1 January 2025.
Texas is the state with the most executions in the country: 586 since 1976. In 2023, eight inmates were executed. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, since 1973 at least 196 people ...
While in Texas state custody Garza was held at the Ellis Unit in Walker County, Texas USP Terre Haute, where Garza was held on federal death row and executed. Juan Raul Garza (November 18, 1956 – June 19, 2001) was an American murderer and drug lord who was executed by the United States federal government for three drug-related murders.
Renteria will be the fifth man convicted of a crime in El Paso to be executed in Texas since 1980. The other men are Justen Grant Hall in 2019, William Josef Berkley in 2010, Ricardo Ortiz in 2009 ...
Humberto Leal García Jr. (January 16, 1973 – July 7, 2011) was a Mexican national who was sentenced to death in the US state of Texas for the May 21, 1994, rape, torture, and murder of Adria Sauceda in San Antonio.
Texas' application of the death penalty is not as aggressive as it once was. But a watchdog group says problems with the system persist. Why the pace of executions has plummeted in Texas