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Several appeals are scheduled this year in some high-profile Texas capital punishment cases.
Texas leads the nation in using the death penalty, with Harris County alone executing more condemned killers than any other state. But 2025 was the second straight year Texas wasn’t the leading state in executions.
Two last-minute stays and an overturned capital conviction brought last year’s Texas execution count down somewhat. But all three cases may still ultimately end in the death chamber.
