List Of People Executed In Texas, 2000–2009
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''Death Penalty Information Center''. Retrieved 4 December 2009. The count is the most of any decade in Texas history, surpassing the 166 executions from the previous decade (1990–1999).


Executions 2000–2009

The number in the "#" column indicates the ''n''th person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty). As an example, Earl Carl Heiselbetz Jr. (the first person executed in Texas during the 2000 decade) was the 200th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.


See also

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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 juris ...
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List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 16 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 Hunt ...


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Narratives of family members of the executed
''Narratives from the mother of A. Fuentes, the father and brother of N. Beazley, the sister of J. Colburn and the mother of J. Nichols''.

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