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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 24 people have been executed since 2020. To date, 24 people have been executed since 2020. All of the people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
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 ...
At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 13, 2021 Lisa Marie Montgomery: 52 36 16 Female White Federal government: Lethal injection [3] 2 January 14, 2021 Corey Johnson: 23 29 Male Black [4] 3 January 16, 2021 Dustin John Higgs: 48 25 [5] 4 May 19, 2021 Quintin Phillippe Jones: 41 20 21 Texas [6] 5 June 30, 2021 John William Hummel: 45 ...
A Texas inmate who killed his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son more than 17 years ago was executed on Wednesday, after courts rejected his appeals over claims of religious freedom ...
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
The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn widespread scrutiny was halted by the Texas Supreme Court late Thursday night as doubts linger over whether his decades-old ...
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 over 120,000 other people petitioned Texas Governor Greg Abbott for clemency to commute his death sentence to a life sentence.
Texas' top criminal appeals court has stopped Thursday evening's scheduled execution of a Texas inmate who had been condemned for killing another prisoner more than 26 years ago. William Speer, 49 ...