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Texas and the Death Penalty

Texas allows the death penalty as an option in the following cases:

murder of a public safety officer, firefighter or correctional employee
murder during the commission of specified felonies (kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated rape, arson)
murder for remuneration
multiple murders
murder during a prison escape
murder by a state prison inmate
murder of an individual under eight years old

The sentence is death by lethal injection.

Minimum age for death penalty: 17

Executions 1930-1976: 368

Executions since 1977:155


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