Executed
Joseph Ries
Joseph Ries, 29, was executed by the State of Texas by lethal injection on October 21, 2008. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice carried out the execution at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, and recorded it among its executed inmates. Ries was held in the custody of the state prison system at the time of his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
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.