Capital punishment in Texas

Capital punishment is legal in the state of Texas, along with 26 other states.

In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the world to carry out an execution by lethal injection, when it executed Charles Brooks Jr. It was the first execution in the state since 1964.

Texas, which is the second most populous state in the United States, has executed 598 people since the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in 1982 with the Brooks execution) to March 11, 2026 (the execution of Cedric Allen Ricks)—more than a third of the national total. Even per capita, Texas has the nation's second-highest execution rate, behind only neighboring Oklahoma.

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