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Previously, male death row inmates were permitted to work. After an escape attempt occurred in 1998, the prison work program was eliminated. [39] In 1928, the state of Texas began housing death row inmates in the Huntsville Unit. In 1965, the male death row inmates moved to the Ellis Unit. In 1999, the male death row moved to Polunsky. [40]
However, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton barred Roberson from appearing in-person to testify, saying it wouldn't be safe to bring a death row inmate to the Capitol. [62] On November 15, 2024, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that state lawmakers had "exceeded their power" when they called on Roberson to testify before a House committee.
The Ellis Unit housed the State of Texas death row for men until mid-1999. Allan B. Polunsky Unit houses the State of Texas death row for men. Huntsville Unit, where Ledesma was put to death. 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.
With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as ...
Texas inmate Ruben Gutierrez came within 20 minutes of his death by lethal injection before the U.S. Supreme Court intervened Tuesday evening, indefinitely staying his execution for the murder of ...
The State of Texas Death Row seal, taken at the Polunsky Unit. Allan B. Polunsky Unit (TL, formerly the Terrell Unit) is a prison in West Livingston, unincorporated Polk County, Texas, United States, located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Livingston along Farm to Market Road 350.
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 ...
Perry continued to maintain his innocence on death row. Shortly before his execution, the case became the subject of Werner Herzog's documentary, Into the Abyss. Herzog said he reviewed the case beforehand, and that the proof of guilt in the case was overwhelming. [3] Perry was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit on July 1, 2010 ...