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  1. www.tdcj.texas.gov › death_rowDeath Row Information - Texas Department of Criminal Justice

    Number of Inmates Sentenced to Death from Each County. Change of Venue Information for Inmates Currently on Death Row. Death Row Information - Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

  2. deathpenaltyinfo.org › state-by-state › texasTexas | Death Penalty Information Center

    • Timeline
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    • Milestones in Abolition/Reinstatement
    • Texas “Firsts”
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    1924 - Texas carries out its first execution by electrocution in the execution of Charles Reynolds in Red River County. 1974 - Texas reinstates the death penalty following Furman v. Georgia. 1982 - Texas becomes the first state to carry out an execution by lethal injection. 1995 - Mario Marquez, a prisoner with an IQ of 65 and the adaptive skills o...

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    Karla Faye Tucker(November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984 and put to death in 1998. She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984, and the first in Texas since 1863. Cameron Todd Willinghamwas executed in 2004 for arson in a 1991 house fire that killed his three daughters. The arson th...

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    Anthony Gravesspent 16 years in prison before being released on October 27, 2010. He was convicted based on the testimony of Robert Carter, who said Graves was his accomplice. Two weeks before Carter was scheduled to be executed in 2000, he provided a statement saying he lied about Graves’s involvement in the crime. He repeated that statement minut...

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    In September 2005, Texas implemented life without parole sentencing in capital cases. Prior to that, juries had a choice between the death penalty and life in prison with a possibility of parole after 40 years.

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    Texas was the first U.S. state to carry out an execution by lethal injection, executing Charles Brooks on December 7, 1982. Texas is first in the number of executions carried out in the United States since 1976.

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    One Texas county (Harris) accounts for 280+ death sentences and 127 executions since 1982. The Texas Governor cannot impose a moratorium on executions, as this authority is not allowed in the Texas Constitution. To give the Governor this power would require a constitutional amendment approved by voters. Clemency process: The governor has clemency a...

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  3. deathpenaltyinfo.org › death-row › overviewDeath Row Overview | Death Penalty Information Center

    Death Row. Around 2, 400 prisoners currently face execution in the United States. The national death-row population has declined for 20 consecutive years, as sentence reversals, executions, and deaths by other causes are outpacing new death sentences.

  4. tcadp.org › get-informed › texas-death-penalty-factsTexas Death Penalty Facts – TCADP

    May 1, 2024 · Since 1973, 197 individuals who spent time on death row have been exonerated, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. This includes 16 people convicted and sentenced to death in Texas.

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