Historic Texas prison that contains the state execution chamber and has served as the site of state executions since the 1920s.
Role in the death-penalty system
The Huntsville Unit opened in 1849 and remains one of the best-known prisons in Texas.
Texas centralized executions in Huntsville in the 1920s; the unit later housed the electric chair and today remains the state execution site.
Texas adopted lethal injection in 1977 and carried out the first U.S. execution by lethal injection in Huntsville in 1982.
Execution methods and historical context
connections
Huntsville 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 — Huntsville Unit – Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Death Row Facts
Connected people, places and records
References
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[1]Texas — Death Penalty Information CenterTier 1SupportsView source ↗
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[2]Death Row FactsTier 1MentionsSupportsView source ↗
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[3]Huntsville UnitTier 1MentionsSupportsView source ↗