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The Texas State Penitentiary. Also know as the Walls Unit and located in Huntsville Texas it is the oldest prison in Texas and the death penalty capital of the United States. It housed the electric chair that executed 362 death row inmates from 1924-1964, all male, before the Furman vs. Georgia US Supreme Court case. From 1982-onwards the Huntsville Unit deployed lethal injection and has executed almost 600 death row inmates.
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