James Wilkens, Jr.

James Wilkens, Jr., 39, was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, on July 11, 2001. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which carried out the sentence, records the death as an execution by lethal injection. The Death Penalty Information Center lists this execution among those carried out in the United States in 2001.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held them); Death Penalty Information Center.

Sources (2)

• Executions in 2001 Death Penalty Information Center
• Executed Inmates Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Executed Inmates and Electrocutions