Allan B. Polunsky Unit

Texas prison that houses the state’s male death-row population, while executions themselves are carried out at the Huntsville Unit.

Role in the death-penalty system

TDCJ states that male prisoners under sentence of death are housed at the Polunsky Unit.

Death row moved to Polunsky in 1999 after earlier periods at Huntsville and Ellis.

Condemned prisoners are transferred away from Polunsky to the Huntsville Unit when an execution is to be carried out.

Execution methods and historical context

connections

Allan B. Polunsky Unit is part of the Death Penalty Prisons and Execution Facilities in the United States hub. As the archive expands, additional executions and prisoners can be attached without turning the facility page into a loose list: each connection is kept as a structured, source-bound relationship.

Sources

– Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Death Row – Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Death Row Facts