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The Huntsville Item is a five-day morning daily newspaper published in Huntsville, Texas, covering Walker County in East Texas. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. The Item 's presses also print two college newspapers, The Battalion of Texas A&M University , and The Houstonian of Sam Houston State University .
The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is the main prison cemetery in Texas, located in Huntsville and operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The colloquial name for the cemetery is Peckerwood Hill. The name originates from "Peckerwood", an insult towards poor white people, [1] because many of those buried at the cemetery were poor.
Jun. 25—HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Faith. Hope. Love. That is how death row inmate Ramiro Felix Gonzales, 41, signs his correspondence these days. Gonzales is scheduled to be executed by the state of ...
Michael James Perry (April 9, 1982 – July 1, 2010) and Jason Aaron Burkett (born July 31, 1982) were American spree killers who killed three people in Texas in 2001. They were both tried and convicted of capital murder for the killings.
A Tribute to Courage monument is a statue of Sam Houston located in Huntsville, Texas (where Sam Houston lived and died), which is 65 miles north of the city of Houston (named in his honor). Sam Houston is one of the founding fathers of Texas. He led the army of Texas during their War for Independence from Mexico in 1836, including the victory ...
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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.
Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States. [5] The population was 45,941 as of the 2020 census. [2] It is the center of the Huntsville micropolitan area.