The Texas Seven

The Texas Seven was a group of inmates who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas on December 13, 2001. The seven members are made up of Joseph Christopher Garcia, Randy Ethan Halprin, Larry James Harper, Patrick Henry Murphy, Jr., Donald Keith Newbury, George Angel Rivas, Jr. and Michael Anthony Rodriguez. Their crime spree lasted for over a month, among them being the murder of Irving Police Officer Aubrey Hawkins, until their capture in January of 2001. Harper committed suicide before authorities could capture him, while the other six were recaptured, convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection. So far, three of its members-- Newbury, Rivas and Rodriguez-- have been executed, Garcia is due to be executed on December 4, 2018 and Halprin and Murphy still continue to sit on death row.