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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 25 people have been executed since 2020. To date, 25 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 .
Texas [6] 5 June 30, 2021 John William Hummel: 45 34 11 White [7] 6 September 28, 2021 Rick Allan Rhoades: 57 27 30 [8] 7 October 5, 2021 Ernest Lee Johnson: 61 33 28 Black Missouri [9] 8 October 21, 2021 Willie B. Smith III: 52 22 30 Alabama [10] 9 October 28, 2021 John Marion Grant: 60 37 23 Oklahoma [11] 10 November 17, 2021 David Neal Cox ...
[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. [3] [4] He was executed on May 19, 2021, the first execution by the state of Texas in 10 months and only the second since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. He was executed ...
And less than an hour later at 7:01 p.m. CT, Texas executed Travis James Mullis in the murder of his 3-month-old son in 2008. Then on Sept. 26 came two more back-to-back executions.
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
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 ...
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 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 ...