The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 22 people have been executed since 2020. All of the people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas.[1]
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty). As an example, John Steven Gardner (the first person executed in Texas during the 2020 decade) was the 568th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.
2020 - 3 executions | |||||||||
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Executed person | Ethnicity | Age | Sex | Date of execution | County | Victim(s) | Governor [2] | ||
568 | John Steven Gardner | White | 64 | M | 15-Jan-2020 | Tammy Gardner | Greg Abbott | ||
569 | Abel Revill Ochoa | Hispanic | 47 | M | 06-Feb-2020 | 5 murder victims | |||
570 | Billy Joe Wardlow | White | 45 | M | 08-Jul-2020 | Carl Cole | |||
2021 - 3 executions | |||||||||
571 | Black | 41 | M | 19-May-2021 | Berthena Bryant | ||||
572 | John William Hummel | White | 45 | M | 30-Jun-2021 | Joy Keziyah Hummel, Jodi Ruth Hummel, and Clyde Bedford | |||
573 | Rick Allan Rhoades | White | 57 | M | 28-Sep-2021 | Bradley Allen and Charles Allen | |||
2022 - 5 executions | |||||||||
574 | White | 78 | M | 21-Apr-2022 | Houston police officer James Bruce Irby | ||||
575 | Kosoul Chanthakoummane | Asian | 41 | M | 17-Aug-2022 | Sarah Anne Walker | |||
576 | Hispanic | 38 | M | 05-Oct-2022 | Pablo Castro | ||||
577 | Tracy Lane Beatty | White | 61 | M | 09-Nov-2022 | Carolyn Click | |||
578 | Stephen Dale Barbee | White | 55 | M | 16-Nov-2022 | Lisa Underwood and Jayden Underwood | |||
2023 - 8 executions | |||||||||
579 | Robert Alan Fratta | White | 65 | M | 10-Jan-2023 | Farah Fratta | |||
580 | Wesley Lynn Ruiz | Hispanic | 43 | M | align=center | 01-Feb-2023 | Dallas police officer Mark Timothy Nix | ||
581 | John Lezell Balentine | Black | 54 | M | align=center | 08-Feb-2023 | Mark Edward Caylor, Kai Brooke Geyer, and Steven Brady Watson | ||
582 | Gary Green | Black | 51 | M | 07-Mar-2023 | Lovetta Armstead and Jazzmen Montgomery | |||
583 | Black | 52 | M | 09-Mar-2023 | 4 murder victims | ||||
584 | Jedidiah Isaac Murphy | White | 48 | M | 10-Oct-2023 | Bertie Lee Cunningham | |||
585 | Brent Ray Brewer | White | 53 | M | 09-Nov-2023 | Robert Doyle Laminack | |||
586 | Native American | 53 | M | 16-Nov-2023 | Alexandra Flores | ||||
2024 - 3 executions | |||||||||
587 | Hispanic | 50 | M | 28-Feb-2024 | James Edwin Mosqueda and Amy Michelle Kitchen | ||||
588 | Ramiro Felix Gonzales | Hispanic | 41 | M | 26-Jun-2024 | Bridget Townsend | |||
589 | Arthur Lee Burton | Black | 54 | M | 07-Aug-2024 | Nancy Adleman | |||