23 October 2010 :

Larry Wooten, 51, black, was executed. Wooten was condemned to death for the Sept. 3, 1996 murders of 80-year-old Grady Alexander and his 86-year-old wife, Bessie, during a burglary. Between 10 to 15 anti-death penalty protesters stood about a block away outside the prison that the execution chamber is housed in, with one woman using a bullhorn to say, "The state of Texas has committed another murder." Wooten becomes the 17th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas and the 464th overall since the state resumed capital punishment on Dec. 7, 1982. Wooten becomes the 43rd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1231st overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.