Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green, a Black man, was 44 years old when the State of Texas executed him by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville on October 10, 2012. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice recorded the death as an execution by lethal injection. A federal judge had blocked the execution, ruling that due process was violated in a hearing on his competency, but the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that ruling. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal to stop the execution, and he died that evening.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. A federal judge had blocked the execution over a competency hearing, but the Fifth Circuit overturned that ruling and the Supreme Court declined to intervene.
Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held him); U.S. Supreme Court (court).