Texas Seven
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The Texas 7 were a group of prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000. Six of the seven were apprehended over a month later, between January 22–24,
The seven inmates involved in the escape. Top row, left to right, Joseph Garcia, Randy Halprin, Larry James Harper, and Patrick Murphy Jr. Bottom row, left to right, Donald Newbury, George Rivas, and Michael Anthony Rodriguez.
The surviving members are held at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit.
Huntsville Unit, where Rivas, Rodriguez, Newbury, and Garcia were executed.
Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery
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The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is the main prison cemetery in Texas, United States, located in Huntsville and operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The cemetery is colloquially known as
Texas Seven
…March 7, 2017. Joseph Garcia was executed by lethal injection on December 4, 2018. The bodies of Harper, Rodriguez, Newbury, and Garcia are buried at Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery. The remaining two members, Halprin and Murphy, are incarcerated on death row at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, located…
Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery