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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1982 (when the state resumed executions) to 1989. All of the 33 people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
Jose Antonio "Tony" Canales: [50] First Hispanic American male to serve as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas (1977) Robert L. Pitman : [ 39 ] First openly L G BT male to serve as a U.S. Attorney in Texas (2011-2014)
Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." [ 1 ] In a unanimous ruling, the court held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States have equal protection under ...
Cisneros v. Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD) was a 1970 federal court case in the Southern District of Texas which determined that Mexican Americans were an "identifiable ethnic-minority group," [1] and were subject to discriminatory educational practices.
He was previously the executive director of the Workers Defense Project from 2015 [3] to 2021 [4] and was the Democratic Party nominee to be Travis County District Attorney. [5] [6] Garza defeated incumbent DA Margaret Moore in the July 2020 runoff for the Democratic Party nomination. [6]
Serrano is the director-general counsel of Silent Majority Foundation, a conservative nonprofit that has filed legal challenges to the state’s COVID-19 emergency order, vaccine mandates and gun ...
Canales was born in 1877 on his family ranch in Nueces County, Texas, the son of Andreas and Tomasa (Cavazos) Canales, a Tejano family who had deep roots in Texas that preceded the Anglo-Americans. [2] He was a descendant of José Salvador de la Garza, who once held a Spanish land grant encompassing much of present-day Cameron County.
The House of Cámara (also known in Spanish as de la Cámara or in Portuguese as da Câmara or Gonçalves da Câmara) is an aristocratic family with a rich history in Spain, Portugal and Mexico. Gonzalo de la Cámara was elevated to knighthood after fighting under the command of King Ferdinand III of Castile during the Battle of Baeza in 1227 .