Texas #1 State for ......

Executions!!!

Just some facts about the state that kills more inmates than any other state....

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<TABLE borderColor=#c0c0c0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width=578 border=1><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=center bgColor=#000000>Cost per Day per Offender:
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>$61.58 (based on FY2002)
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<TABLE borderColor=#c0c0c0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width=578 border=1><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=center>Hanging was means of execution between 1819 and 1923.
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>The State of Texas authorized the use of the electric chair in 1923, and ordered all executions to be carried out by the State in Huntsville. Prior to 1923, Texas counties were responsible for their own executions.
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>The State of Texas executed the first offender by electrocution on 2/8/1924. Charles Reynolds from Red River County was executed. On that same date, four additional offenders, Ewell Morris, George Washington, Mack Matthews, and Melvin Johnson were executed.
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>State of Texas executed brothers on six occasions:
Frank & Lorenzo Noel electrocuted 7/3/1925;
S.A. & Forest Robins electrocuted 4/6/1926;
Oscar & Mack Brown electrocuted 7/1/1936;
Roscoe & Henderson Brown electrocuted 5/6/1938;
Curtis 7/1/1993 & Danny 7/30/1993 Harris (both by lethal injection);
Jessie 9/16/1994 & Jose 11/18/1999 Gutierrez (both by lethal injection).
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>One of the most notorious offenders to be executed was Raymond Hamilton, member of the "Bonnie and Clyde" gang. He was sentenced from Walker County and executed on May 10, 1935, for murder. Hamilton and another man had escaped from death row, only to be captured and return to death row.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE borderColor=#c0c0c0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width=578 border=1><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=center bgColor=#000000>United States Capital Punishment:
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>As of December 31,1999, the death penalty was authorized by 38 states and the Federal Government.
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>Texas leads nation in the number of executions since death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>Texas, California, and Florida have the largest death row populations.
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>3,581 offenders were under sentence of death in the United States as of December 31, 2001.
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>There are five methods of execution in the United States: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, hanging, and firing squad.
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>Jurisdictions without death penalty statutes: Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE borderColor=#c0c0c0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width=578 border=1><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=center bgColor=#000000>Lethal Injection Consists Of:
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>Sodium Thiopental (lethal dose - sedates person)
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>Pancuronium Bromide (muscle relaxant-collapses diaphragm and lungs)
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>Potassium Chloride (stops heart beat)
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>The offender is usually pronounced dead approximately 7 minutes after the lethal injection begins.
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>Cost per execution for drugs used : $86.08
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE borderColor=#c0c0c0 height=633 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width=578 border=1 bpcolor="#ffffff"><TBODY><TR vAlign=bottom><TD align=left bgColor=#000000 colSpan=6 height=16>Average Time on Death Row prior to Execution: </TD></TR><TR vAlign=bottom><TD align=left colSpan=6 height=19>10.43 years
</TD></TR><TR vAlign=bottom><TD align=right colSpan=6 height=16> </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top align=middle><TD bgColor=#000000 colSpan=6 height=16>Shortest Time on Death Row prior to Execution</TD></TR><TR vAlign=center align=middle><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16> </TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>Name</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>County</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>TDCJ Number</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>Time on Death Row</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>Execution Date</TD></TR><TR vAlign=center><TD align=middle height=16>1.</TD><TD align=left height=16>Joe Gonzales</TD><TD align=left height=16>Potter</TD><TD align=middle height=16>999177</TD><TD align=middle height=16>252 days</TD><TD style="vnd: m d yy" align=middle height=16>9/18/96</TD></TR><TR vAlign=center><TD align=middle height=16>2.</TD><TD align=left height=16>Steven Renfro</TD><TD align=left height=16>Harrison</TD><TD align=middle height=16>999229</TD><TD align=middle height=16>263 days</TD><TD style="vnd: m d yy" align=middle height=16>2/9/98</TD></TR><TR vAlign=center align=middle><TD colSpan=6 height=16> </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top align=middle><TD bgColor=#000000 colSpan=6 height=16>Longest Time on Death Row prior to Execution</TD></TR><TR vAlign=center align=middle><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16> </TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>Name</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>County</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>TDCJ Number</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>Time on Death Row</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>Execution Date</TD></TR><TR vAlign=center><TD align=left height=16>1.</TD><TD align=left height=16>Excell White</TD><TD align=left height=16>Collin</TD><TD align=middle height=16>511</TD><TD align=middle height=16>8982 days (24 years)</TD><TD style="vnd: m d yy" align=middle height=16>3/30/99</TD></TR><TR vAlign=center><TD align=left height=16>2.</TD><TD align=left height=16>Sammie Felder, Jr.</TD><TD align=left height=16>Harris</TD><TD align=middle height=16>550</TD><TD align=middle height=16>8569 days (23 years)</TD><TD style="vnd: m d yy" align=middle height=16>12/15/99</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE borderColor=#c0c0c0 height=633 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width=578 border=1 bpcolor="#ffffff"><TBODY><TR vAlign=top align=middle><TD bgColor=#000000 colSpan=6 height=16>Youngest at Time of Execution</TD></TR><TR vAlign=center align=middle><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 colSpan=2 height=16> Name</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>County</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>TDCJ Number</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>Age</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>Execution Date</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=bottom align=right colSpan=2 height=16><CENTER></CENTER></TD><CENTER><TD vAlign=bottom align=left height=16>Nueces</TD><TD vAlign=bottom align=middle height=16>686</TD><TD vAlign=center align=middle height=16>24</TD><TD style="vnd: m d yy" vAlign=bottom align=middle height=16>5/15/1986</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=bottom align=left colSpan=2 height=16>Jesse De La Rosa</TD><TD vAlign=bottom align=left height=16>Bexar</TD><TD vAlign=bottom align=middle height=16>713</TD><TD vAlign=center align=middle height=16>24</TD><TD style="vnd: m d yy" vAlign=bottom align=middle height=16>5/15/1985</TD></TR><TR vAlign=bottom><TD align=right colSpan=6 height=16> </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top align=middle><TD bgColor=#000000 colSpan=6 height=16>Oldest at Time of Execution</TD></TR><TR vAlign=center align=middle><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 colSpan=2 height=16>Name</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>County</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>TDCJ Number</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>Age</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#000000 height=16>Execution Date</TD></TR><TR vAlign=bottom><TD align=right colSpan=2 height=16><CENTER></CENTER></TD><CENTER><TD align=left height=16>Tarrant</TD><TD align=middle height=16>960</TD><TD align=middle height=16>66</TD><TD style="vnd: m d yy" align=middle height=16>11/20/2002</TD></TR></CENTER><TR vAlign=bottom><TD align=right colSpan=2 height=16></TD><CENTER><TD align=left height=16>Montgomery</TD><TD align=middle height=16>999200</TD><TD align=middle height=16>64</TD><TD style="vnd: m d yy" align=middle height=16>7/2/2003</TD></CENTER></TR></CENTER></TBODY></TABLE>
Death Row Information

Virginia will catch them one day, we love to see people fry.

Great info Max.

I believe, As governor of Texass, Bush set the record for most state executions while also shattering the record for most vacation days.

Now that's efficiency! (amongst other things)

This info is quite shocking to me...If you commit a capital offense in Texas you are guarenteed a seat on death row.

We dont care how old or young you are
66 oldest
24 youngest

Um, isn't that the point? You commit a capital offense, you receive capital punishment.

You can argue the death penalty all you want, but if you have it as law, shouldn't it be used in cases where it fits the crime?

Let's just hope that there are not, never were, and never will be any wrongly convicted people on the Texass death row. Pretty hard to release a guy from death.

Yea them damn texans are brutal bastards.like that chick andrea yates.how can they put her in prison for aborting her babies?????????? get with the times Texas, a woman has the right to choose!!!!!!!!!!

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We dont care how old or young you are
66 oldest
24 youngest
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Maxdemo,

What's your point? How old was the person the 66 yr old killed? How old was the person the 24 yr old killed? The whole point of having capital punishment is to punish the people who committed the capital crime, isn't it?

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Texas ...

Where the men are men and the sheep are nervous

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<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->This info is quite shocking to me...If you commit a capital offense in Texas you are guarenteed a seat on death row.

We dont care how old or young you are
66 oldest
24 youngest
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Maxdemo,

What's your point? How old was the person the 66 yr old killed? How old was the person the 24 yr old killed? The whole point of having capital punishment is to punish the people who committed the capital crime, isn't it?

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No point here... There is a need in this society for the death penalty. the stats are a liitle surprising...that's all. Still the stats thay provide are very through..

Lander..
I believe that an inocent person has been put to death in Texas.. I would go as far to say that there have been several in the US, but without the DP I think crimes would be more prevelant

Maxdemo,

Thanks for the reply... :drink:

lander said:

Let's just hope that there are not, never were, and never will be any wrongly convicted people on the Texass death row. Pretty hard to release a guy from death.

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Some hope, see post #9 in:

http://forum.therx.com/showthread.php?t=374072

I think Texas should repeal their open container prohibition.

Kiss1 said:

Texas ...

Where the men are men and the sheep are nervous

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Sheep? You may want to replace that with cattle, goats, rattlesnakes, largebreastedbedthrashers, but there's no sheep in Texas, son.

Northerners.....sheeeeeez.

Hal