[3] The Huntsville Item is the only newspaper that reports on all executions in Texas regardless of the county of conviction.

[4] Founded in 1850, The Item reportedly is the second oldest continuously published newspaper in Texas.

It has been headquartered across from the old Huntsville post office, on the banks of Town Creek, since the late 1960s.

The Thomson Corporation sold The Huntsville Item, along with 11 other papers, to the American Publishing Company (later Hollinger International) in 1995.

Hollinger sold off most of its small papers in 1999, and The Huntsville Item went to Community Newspaper Holdings.