Tracy Beatty
Tracy Beatty, 61, was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, on November 9, 2022, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In his final statement, he thanked the men he had known on the unit for encouraging him to get his life right. His attorneys raised questions about his mental competency and intellectual disability, and about a juror who knew his mother, but the courts declined to intervene. Neither the U.S. Supreme Court nor Governor Greg Abbott stopped the execution.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. His attorneys raised questions about his mental competency and intellectual disability and about a juror who knew his mother, but courts declined to intervene.
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.