Lists of people executed in Texas

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.

[1] During the American Civil War, three Confederate deserters and a man convicted of attempted rape were executed by firing squad.

[2] 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 10 February 2025, 591 people (all of whom were convicted of murder) have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit.

[3] The number is over four times as many as Oklahoma[4] (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;[5] California has not executed anyone since January 2006, and has a moratorium on capital punishment as of March 2019[update]).