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Texas


State update

Link to The StandDown Texas Project

Link to Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Link to Texas Moratorium Network

Link to death penalty statute

Texas Penal Code, Title 3, Chapter 12, Subchapter C, Sec. 12.31

Link to execution statute

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Title 1, Chapter 43, Article 43.14

Date death penalty reenacted

January 1, 1979

Can a defendant get death penalty for a felony in which s/he was not responsible for the murder?

Yes; also for a second conviction for rape of a child under 14; first offense could have occurred prior to law's passage

How is the sentence determined?

Jury

Location of death row(s)

Livingston (Women: Gatesville)

Clemency process

Governor must have the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommendation for clemency

Time of execution (in law and/or by custom)

The criminal code specifies that “the sentence shall be executed at any time after the hour of 6 p.m.” In the past, executions in Texas have taken place around 6 pm

Number of people exonerated from death row since 1973

8

Names of people exonerated from death row since 1973



Execution Method

Lethal Injection

Total Executions Since State's Reinstatement of the Death Penalty: 446


Pending Executions

Bobby Woods: 12/3/2009
Gary Johnson: 1/12/2010
Gerald Eldridge: 2/17/2010
Hank Skinner: 2/24/2010
Michael Sigala: 3/2/2010
Franklin Alix: 3/30/2010

Contact the SDPAC for Texas

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