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    State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit (HV), nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States...
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    Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States. The population was 45,941 as of the 2020 census. It is the center of...
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    "supermax" units and is notable for being the location of Texas's death row for men (executions, though, are conducted at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville). The...
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    The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas...
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    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...
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  • supporters. Cantu maintained his innocence until he was executed at the Huntsville Unit on February 28, 2024. There were calls by politicians such as Joaquin...
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    that they take place at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville (also known as Huntsville Unit). From 1928 until 1965, this was also home to the state's...
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  • and 1981. Both were sentenced to death and executed at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, via lethal injection. Prior to Emery's execution, he...
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  • Eastham Unit Ellis Unit W.J. Estelle Unit Ferguson Unit Thomas Goree Unit Huntsville Unit – Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville Gib Lewis Unit Allan...
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  • murders and sentenced to death in one case, Green was executed at the Huntsville Unit in 1997. Ricky Lee Green was born on December 27, 1960, in Fort Worth...
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  • executed by lethal injection at 6:18 pm CST on February 24, 2000, in the Huntsville Unit. She did not request a final meal, nor did she make a final statement...
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  • Dudley and Brown were executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. Dudley was executed on January 25, 2006, and Brown was...
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  • executed on July 20, 2011, by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit state prison in Huntsville, Texas. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered over...
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  • authorities took Tucker from the unit in Gatesville and flew her on a TDCJ aircraft, transporting her to the Huntsville Unit. For her last meal, Tucker requested...
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  • 26, 2013. McCarthy was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 26, 2013. Her execution marked the 500th convicted...
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  • date was pushed back. He was executed on June 12, 2013, at the Huntsville Unit, Huntsville, Texas, two days before his 44th birthday. He is buried at Captain...
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  • of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person...
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  • Boyd was executed by lethal injection in the execution chamber at the Huntsville Unit, twelve days shy of his 40th birthday. Prior to his execution, he was...
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  • executed via lethal injection in the execution chamber at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. He was pronounced dead at 12:31 a.m. In his final statement...
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    the Byrd Unit, the Goree Unit, the Huntsville Unit, and the Wynne Unit, are in the Huntsville city limits. The Holliday Unit, a transfer unit, is in Huntsville...
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  • "Executions in Texas normally take place after 6:00 p.m. at the Huntsville Unit in downtown Huntsville, Texas." "Virginia Death Row/Execution Facts." My FOX DC...
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  • reprieve and clemency, Ronald was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit. He declined a last meal. When asked if he had any last words, Ronald...
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    The John M. Wynne Unit (WY) is a men's prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, located in northern Huntsville, Texas, at the intersection...
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    Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery (category Huntsville, Texas)
    maintained the cemetery since then. The warden of the Huntsville Unit (nicknamed the "Walls Unit") maintains the cemetery. In the 1850s officials from...
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  • ended up in the same Lubbock landfill). Rodriguez was executed at the Huntsville Unit on March 27, 2018, the day after his 38th birthday. Rodriguez was born...
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    death row at the Polunsky Unit near Livingston, Texas. He was executed on March 22, 2016, at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. Ward stated: "This...
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  • the time, death row for men and the execution chamber were both at Huntsville Unit. On February 10, 1928, George Hassell became the 37th man to be put...
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  • beans, and sliced bread. She was executed on February 5, 2014, at the Huntsville Unit of the TDCJ. When asked if she had a last statement, she replied to...
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  • confessed and was later given a death sentence. He was executed at the Huntsville Unit on August 12, 2008. On the night of April 4, 1994, Dorsey entered a...
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    Texas Department of Criminal Justice (category Huntsville, Texas)
    the Huntsville Walls prison resulted in the murder of two hostages. This was not a riot, but an escape attempt in which the whole Huntsville Unit was...
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