The list of people executed by the

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, 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

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in the county where the trial took place.The Espy File: 1608–2002
''Death Penalty Information Center''. Retrieved 31 March 2010. During the

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, three

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deserters Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning. This contrasts with unauthorized absence (UA) or absence without leave (AWOL ), which a ...

and a man convicted of attempted

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were executed by

firing squad Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French ''fusil'', rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Some reasons for its use are that firearms are ...

. The law was changed in 1923 requiring executions to be carried out in the

electric chair An electric chair is a device used to execute an individual by electrocution. When used, the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes fastened on the head and leg. This execution method, ...

at the

Huntsville Unit Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit (HV), nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States. The approximately facility, near downtown Huntsville, is operated by the Correctional Ins ...

Huntsville, Texas Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas. The population was 45,941 as of the 2020 census. It is the center of the Huntsville micropolitan area. Huntsville is in the East Texas Piney Woods on Interstate 45 and home ...

. From 1924 to 1964, 361 people were executed in this way.List of Electrocuted Offenders
. ''

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''. Retrieved 31 March 2010. After an 18-year gap following ''

Furman v. Georgia ''Furman v. Georgia'', 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court invalidated all then existing legal constructions for the death penalty in the United States. It was 5–4 decision, with each memb ...

'', executions were resumed following new capital-punishment laws passed by the State of Texas (and upheld in ''

Gregg v. Georgia ''Gregg v. Georgia'', ''Proffitt v. Florida'', ''Jurek v. Texas'', ''Woodson v. North Carolina'', and ''Roberts v. Louisiana'', 428 U.S. 153 (1976), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. It reaffirmed the Court's acceptance of the use ...

'', which also included a companion case from Texas), among them changing the method of execution to lethal injection. Since 1982 and as of , 581 people (all of whom were convicted of murder) have been

executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit.List of Executed Offenders
Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved 07 August 2012. The number is over four times as many as Oklahoma (the state with the second-highest total of executions in the post-''Gregg'' era and the only one with a higher execution rate) and over 37 times as many as California (the state with the largest number of death row inmates;

California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...

has not executed anyone since January 2006, and has a moratorium on capital punishment ).

Executions from 1819

* 1819–1849: 9 executions * 1850–1859: 18 executions * 1860–1869: 20 executions * 1870–1879: 50 executions * 1880–1889: 64 executions * 1890–1899: 101 executions * 1900–1909: 71 executions * 1910–1919: 51 executions * 1920–1929: 66 executions * 1930–1939: 122 executions * 1940–1949: 78 executions * 1950–1959: 76 executions * 1960–1964: 29 executions * 1982–1989: 33 executions * 1990–1999: 166 executions * 2000–2009: 248 executions * 2010–2019: 120 executions * 2020–present: 14 executions

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Executions from 1819

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