<P> Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas . </P> <P> In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the world to carry out an execution by lethal injection, when it put to death Charles Brooks Jr...It was the first execution in the state since 1964 . </P> <P> Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, has executed 553 offenders from the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in 1982 with the Brooks execution) to July 17, 2018 (the Christopher Young execution), more than a third of the national total . </P>

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