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List Of People Executed In Texas, 1920–1929
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1920 and 1929. A total of 66 people were executed during this period. From 1920 to 1923, ten people were executed by hanging.The Espy File: 1608–2002 ''Death Penalty Information Center''. Retrieved 23 February 2009. The last hanging in the state was that of Nathan Lee, a man convicted of murder and executed in on August 31, 1923. The law was changed in 1923 requiring executions be carried out on the and that they take place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by both List of U.S. states and territories by area, area (after Alaska) and List of U.S. states and territories by population, population (after California). Texas shares borders with the states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, states of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest; and has a coastline with the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Houston is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in Texas and the List of United States cities by population, fourth-largest in the U.S., while San Antonio is the second most pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Moody
Daniel James Moody Jr. (June 1, 1893May 22, 1966), was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. Originally from Taylor, Texas, he served as the 30th governor of Texas between 1927 and 1931. At the age of 33, he was elected and took office as the youngest governor in Texas history. After his two terms as governor, he returned to private law practice and continued to prosecute and represent various functions of the US government in his later life. Early life Moody was born on June 1, 1893 in Taylor, Texas. He was the son of Taylor's mayor, justice of the peace, and school board chairman, Daniel James Moody, who was one of the town's first settlers in 1876. His mother, Nannie Elizabeth Robertson, was a local school teacher when Moody married her in 1890. Moody Jr. was an alumnus of the University of Texas Law School and became a member of the State Bar of Texas at 21, in 1914. He began practicing with Harris Melasky in Taylor. During World War I, Moody served in both the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Punishment In Texas
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas for murder, and participation in a felony resulting in death if committed by an individual who has attained or is over the age of 18. In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the world to carry out an execution by lethal injection, when it executed Charles Brooks Jr. It was the first execution in the state since 1964. Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, has executed 578 offenders since the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in 1982 with the Brooks execution) to November 16, 2022 (the execution of Stephen Dale Barbee)—more than a third of the national total. Even per capita, Texas has the nation's second-highest execution rate, behind only neighboring Oklahoma. History The first execution in Texas occurred in 1819, with the execution of a white male, George Brown, for piracy. In 1840, a free black male, Henry Forbes, was executed for jail-breaking. Prio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People Executed In Texas, 1930–1939
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1930 and 1939. During this period 122 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas.The Espy File: 1608–2002 ''Death Penalty Information Center''. Retrieved 23 February 2009. . ''''. Retrieved 23 February 2009. Executions 1930–1939 See also * |
Lists Of People Executed In Texas
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, 1,334 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of . Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place.The Espy File: 1608–2002 ''Death Penalty Information Center''. Retrieved 31 March 2010. During the , three |
List Of People Executed In Texas, 1910–1919
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1910 and 1919. During this period 51 people were executed by hanging.The Espy File: 1608–2002 ''Death Penalty Information Center''. Retrieved 23 February 2009. Executions 1910–1919 See also *References ---- {{DEFAULTSORT:List of people executed in Texas, 1910-19 |
Santa Claus Bank Robbery
The Santa Claus Bank Robbery occurred on December 23, 1927, in the Central Texas town of Cisco, Texas, Cisco. Marshall Ratliff, dressed as Santa Claus, along with Henry Helms and Robert Hill, all Convict, ex-cons, and Louis Davis, a relative of Helms, held up the First National Bank in Cisco. The robbery is one of Texas' most infamous crimes, having invoked the largest Manhunt (law enforcement), manhunt ever seen in the state. Witness, Eyewitness Boyce House wrote that this was "the most spectacular crime in the history of the Southwest ... surpassing any in which Billy the Kid or the Jesse James, James boys had ever figured." Background Marshall Ratliff was an ex-con who had lived in Cisco before being tracked down and imprisoned for a bank robbery in Valera, Texas, by Cisco Chief of Police, G.E. "Bit" Bedford. Though Ratliff was given a long prison sentence, he had been paroled just before the infamous bank robbery. He initially planned to rob the Cisco bank with his brother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hassell
George Jefferson Hassell (July 5, 1888 – February 10, 1928) was an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed his wife and eight children (ranging in age between 1 and 21 years old) on December 5, 1926, in Farwell, Texas. He also killed his wife and three stepchildren in 1917 in California. Family background Hassell was born in Smithville, Texas, the youngest of seven children. After his brother Thomas died from being kicked in the head by a mule, he married his brother's widow, Susan Ferguson of Oklahoma. According to Hassell, his mother died in 1901 and his father died in 1905. Believing his stepmother had poisoned his father, Hassell said he'd planned to kill her and anyone with her, but said "I got too much whiskey and didn't use any gun." Hassell also said he served prison time for embezzlement. Crime On the night of December 5, 1926, Hassell and his wife argued over him raping and impregnating Ferguson's underage daughter Maudie, who was Hassell's own niece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Marion Snow
Francis Marion Snow (June 6, 1881 – August 12, 1927), also known as the Butcher of Stephenville, was an American triple murderer and Familicide, family annihilator who murdered his wife, Parent-in-law, mother-in-law, and Stepchild, step-son on November 27, 1925, near Selden, Texas, Selden, Texas, after an argument. He was convicted of these murders and executed on August 12, 1927. Snow is also suspected of committing several other murders. Murders On November 27, 1925, a 44-year-old Francis Snow had an argument with his wife, Maggie Snow, after she let livestock loose in the cotton patch. Snow became enraged, and Club (weapon), bludgeoned her to death with a wooden club. Snow then murdered his mother-in-law, Samantha Olds, with an axe. Olds, who was 74, was unaware that she was in any danger because she was Visual impairment, blind and Deafness, deaf. Snow then hid the bodies, and rode on horse and buggy to find his stepson, 19-year-old Bernard Connally. Earlier in the day, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
