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Gary Green

51 years old · died March 7, 2023 · Huntsville State Penitentiary, Walker County, Texas

Gary Green, a Black man aged 51, was executed by lethal injection on March 7, 2023, at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, where he was held in the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In a final statement, he apologized to the relatives of the people he had harmed and thanked prison staff, according to KSAT. His attorneys had raised claims of intellectual disability and mental illness in earlier appeals, and the courts rejected those claims. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice lists his death as a homicide carried out by lethal injection.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. His attorneys raised claims of intellectual disability and mental illness in earlier appeals, which courts rejected.

Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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