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, 1,351 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 American Civil War, three Confederate deserters and a man convicted of attempted rape were executed by firing squad. The law was changed in 1923 requiring executions to be carried out in the electric chair at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. From 1924 to 1964, 361 people were executed in this way.List of Electrocuted Offenders . Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved 31 March 2010. After an 18-year gap following Furman v. Georgia, executions were resumed following new capital-punishment laws passed by the State of Texas (and upheld in Gregg v. Georgia, which also included a companion case from Texas), among them changing the method of execution to lethal injection.
Since 1982 and as of , 602 people (all of whom were convicted of murder) have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit.List of Executed Offenders. Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved 17 August 2026. 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 46 times as many as California (the state with the largest number of death row inmates; California 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: 35 executions
See also
Capital punishment in Texas Capital punishment in the United States Lists of people executed in the United States
References
Further reading Harnsberger, R. Scott. A Guide to Sources of Texas Criminal Justice Statistics [North Texas Crime and Criminal Justice Series, no.6]. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2011.
External links Texas Scheduled Executions Texas Offenders on Death Row