Huntsville Unit

More Than 200 Earn Diplomas, Trade Certificates in Recent TDCJ Graduations

October 29, 2026 — Reentry, Advocacy and Resources

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — More than 200 people in Texas prisons and state jails recently earned high school diplomas, high school equivalency (HSE) certificates, trade certificates and apprenticeships, according to the September 2026 issue of The ECHO, the newspaper published for people in TDCJ by the Windham School District. Windham is the school district that operates […]

Texas Executes Jamaal Howard as Lawyers Raise Pentobarbital Concerns After Failed Tennessee Execution

October 29, 2026 — Politics and Policy

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas executed Jamaal Howard on Oct. 7, 2026, one week after a failed execution in Tennessee using the same drug, pentobarbital, raised new questions about whether the drug states use for lethal injections works as intended. Howard, 46, was pronounced dead at 8:03 p.m. at the Huntsville Unit after a single lethal […]

Texas Executes James Broadnax After Clemency and Final Appeals Are Denied

August 7, 2026 — Breaking News

Texas executed James Broadnax by lethal injection on April 30, 2026, after the state parole board declined to recommend clemency and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal. Broadnax, 37, was pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m. at the Huntsville Unit. He had been sentenced to death for the 2008 robbery and fatal shootings of […]

Life inside the Polunsky Unit: What it’s like waiting for execution on Texas’ death row – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

July 15, 2026 — Uncategorized

Inside Polunsky: The Isolated Reality of Texas Death Row The Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, holds one of the most closely watched populations in American corrections — the men awaiting execution on Texas death row. Unlike many other states, Texas houses its condemned inmates in single-cell solitary confinement, where men spend the vast majority of […]