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In 1854, a church and convent were built by Father Peter La Cour near the town's present site. The town began forming in 1878 when Charles Lander Cleveland, a local judge, donated 63.6 acres (257,000 m 2) of land to the Houston East & West Texas Railway (now part of the Union Pacific Railroad) for use as a stop, requesting that the town be named for him.
On April 28, 2023, a mass shooting occurred northwest of Cleveland in San Jacinto County, Texas, United States, [2] [3] resulting in the deaths of five people, including a nine-year-old boy. [4] The perpetrator was a neighbor, who was captured on May 2 after a four-day manhunt.
Huntsville Unit, the location of the State of Texas execution chamber. The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 25 January 2025.
Deadliest mass shooting in Texas history. Deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history. 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting: Santa Fe: May 18, 2018: 10: School shooting 2019 El Paso shooting: El Paso: August 3, 2019: 23: Shooting inside a Walmart and its surrounding area. The shooter, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, was ...
Texas: Profile: 3 February 6, 2025 Demetrius Terrence Frazier: 52 19 33 Alabama: Nitrogen hypoxia: Profile: 4 February 13, 2025 James Dennis Ford: 64 36 28 White Florida: Lethal injection Profile: 5 Richard Lee Tabler: 46 25 21 Texas Profile: 6 March 13, 2025 David Leonard Wood: 67 29 38 Profile: 7 March 20, 2025 Wendell Arden Grissom: 56 37 19
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All of the 248 people (246 males and 2 females) during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. [1] [2] The count is the most of any decade in Texas history, surpassing the 166 executions from the previous decade (1990–1999).
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