1. Texas
It comes as no surprise that Texas, with 9 executions (nearly half the total executions in 2019) tops the list of states that allow death penalty and had executions in 2019. Of the 9 people executed, all were men, five were white, three were black and one was Latino. Billie Coble was perhaps the most notorious of all the men executed, as at the age of 70, he was the oldest man in Texas history to be put to death, having killed three of his wife’s relatives over 30 years ago.
