Tarrant County sent more people to death row this year than any other county in Texas, accounting for half of the six new death sentences handed down in 2024, according to a new report from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP).
This is the first time since 2014 that a Texas county has sentenced more than one new person to death in a single year, according to the report. Tarrant jurors handed down three death sentences in 2024, while juries in Hidalgo County, Gregg County and Johnson County — just south of Tarrant — each sentenced one person to death.