Get Involved. Contact Lawmakers. Stop Executions. Attend Events. Executions The State of Texas has executed people since Executions in Texas peaked in , when 40 people were put to death, and have steadily decreased since.
New death sentences in Texas have decreased since peaking in , when juries sentenced 48 people to death. Death sentences have remained in the single digits for the past six years. Capital trials resumed in the second half of and have resulted in two new death sentences in Texas: On August 6, , after deliberating for nearly eight hours, a Bexar County jury sentenced Otis McKane to death for killing San Antonio Police Detective Benjamin Marconi in It was the first new death sentence imposed by a jury in Texas since March and the first in Bexar County in more than five years.
A Smith County jury imposed the second death sentence of , condemning William Davis to death on October 27 for killing four patients in the ICU unit where he worked in Tyler. Smith County is one of only three counties in Texas where juries have imposed more than one death sentence in the last five years the other two are Harris and Walker counties.
Race The death penalty continues to be imposed disproportionately on people of color. In general, most states require some form of first-degree murder as the crime that is punishable by death. However, 40 percent of denouncers of the death penalty stated that it was wrong to take a life, while 17 percent reasoned that the persons may be wrongly convicted. Support for capital punishment reached a peak in at 76 percent of the population agreeing.
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Anthony Graves spent 16 years in prison before being released on October 27, He was convicted based on the testimony of Robert Carter, who said Graves was his accomplice.
He repeated that statement minutes before his execution. Randall Dale Adams was convicted of killing a police officer. Another suspect, David Harris, was heard bragging about the murder, but said that Adams was the killer.
This case is the subject of the movie The Thin Blue Line. Several death row inmates in Texas have been executed despite serious doubts about their guilt, but they have not been officially exonerated. Names link to details of that case. In September , Texas implemented life without parole sentencing in capital cases. The women on death row are housed at the Mountain View Unit. The State of Texas authorized the use of the electric chair in , and ordered all executions to be carried out by the state in Huntsville.
Prior to , Texas counties were responsible for their own executions. The State of Texas executed the first inmate by electrocution on February 8, Charles Reynolds Red River County was executed.
One of the most notorious inmates to be executed was Raymond Hamilton, a member of the "Bonnie and Clyde" gang. He was sentenced by Walker County and executed on May 10, , for murder.
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