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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 24 people have been executed since 2020. To date, 24 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 .
[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 ...
At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 13, 2021 Lisa Marie Montgomery: 52 36 16 Female White Federal government: Lethal injection [3] 2 January 14, 2021 Corey Johnson: 23 29 Male Black [4] 3 January 16, 2021 Dustin John Higgs: 48 25 [5] 4 May 19, 2021 Quintin Phillippe Jones: 41 20 21 Texas [6] 5 June 30, 2021 John William Hummel: 45 ...
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 ...
Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night just feet from the execution chamber where he was set to be put to death for the murder of his toddler – even as the ...
A Texas inmate who killed his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son more than 17 years ago was executed on Wednesday, after courts rejected his appeals over claims of religious freedom ...
From 1924 to 1964, 361 people were executed in this way. [2] After an 18-year gap following Furman v. Georgia, executions were resumed following new capital-punishment laws passed by the State of Texas (and upheld in Gregg v. Georgia, which also included a companion case from Texas), among them changing the method of execution to lethal injection.
The scheduled execution of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter has been halted after the Texas Supreme Court issued a partial stay late Thursday night ...