TEXAS DEATH ROW. Executions in the Modern Era

Softcover. This book presents the factual record preserved by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for each of the individual offenders executed by the State of Texas in the modern era. The modern era is the period following the June 29, 1972, U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Furman v. Georgia, which declared capital punishment, as then administered, unconstitutional, and the reinstitution of the death penalty in Texas following passage of House Bill 200 by the Sixty-Third Legislature in Texas, which became effective on June 14, 1973, and satisfied the concerns of the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the unconstitutional nature of the death penalty in Texas. Featuring 222 cases. Illus. + Appendices. Unpaginated. 8vo. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F.