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James Emery Paster (January 30, 1945 – September 20, 1989) [1] and Stephen Albert McCoy (December 17, 1948 – May 24, 1989) [2] were American serial killers who murdered at least three people in Texas between 1980 and 1981. Both were sentenced to death and executed at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, via lethal injection.
By law executions are scheduled to begin after 6:00 p.m. Huntsville (Central) time. [35] The inmates are housed until that time about 30 feet (9.1 m) from the door of the execution chamber. The Texas Death House is located at the northeast corner of the Walls Unit, just below the #1 picket.
Dudley was executed by lethal injection on January 25, 2006, in Huntsville, Texas. [17] He became the first person to be executed by the state of Texas in 2006. [4] Dudley refused to walk to the execution chamber and had to be carried. [18] When asked if he had a final statement to make, he ignored the warden and kept his eyes shut.
Giles was facing charges of heroin and drug paraphernalia possession, according to the Texas attorney general. The cause of death was due to a methamphetamine overdose and heart disease, according to the Dallas Morning News. Jail or Agency: Irving City Jail; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: 4/15/2016; Date of death: 4/17/2016; Age at ...
Shaka Sankofa (born Gary Lee Graham; September 5, 1963 [1] – June 22, 2000) was a Texas death-row inmate who was sentenced to death at the age of 17 for the murder of 53-year-old Bobby Grant Lambert in Houston, Texas, on May 13, 1981.
Gardner became the first inmate put to death this year in Texas and the U.S. Seven other executions are scheduled in the next few months in Texas, the nation’s busiest capital punishment state.
Juan Martín García (February 18, 1980 [1] – October 6, 2015) was a Texas man who was executed for capital murder. [ 2 ] On September 17, 1998, [ 1 ] Garcia attempted to rob Hugo Solano, a 36-year old Christian missionary from Guadalajara , Mexico who had moved to Houston to provide a U.S. education for his children.
Steven Lawayne Nelson was born in Ada, Oklahoma, on February 18, 1987.Nelson, who had a brother and sister (who was deaf), was a victim of childhood abuse and neglect. Nelson's mother left him at home by himself, sometimes for 3 to 4 days, and never paid much attention to her children, while Nelson's father was often absent in his life, and he was abusive towards his children and w