Fact Sheets
The Death Penalty in Bexar County
The Death Penalty in Dallas County
The Death Penalty in Harris County
The Death Penalty in Tarrant County
Reports
Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2023: The Year in Review (December 2023)
Death By Design, a report on the systemic failures of capital defense in Harris County from the Wren Collective (December 2023) Part 1 and Part 2
The 2% Death Penalty (Death Penalty Information Center)
Too Broken to Fix: An In-depth Look at America’s Outlier Death Penalty Counties Part I and Part II (The Fair Punishment Project)
Articles
Joint Statement from Elected Prosecutors Pledging to Work Towards the Elimination of the Death Penalty, Updated as of March 3, 2022 (includes three DAs in Texas); read the press release regarding the statement
“Capital Punishment: The State of the Death Penalty in Tarrant County and Texas,” blog post by Varghese Summersett PLLC, Fort Worth, Texas (July 14, 2020; updated May 20, 2021)
“Experts discuss cost of the death penalty amid era of growing decline,” Community Impact Newspaper (Richardson edition), March 18, 2020
Videos