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My trip to Texas once again , may 2024.
I show you Huntsville prison prison .
opened in 1849 , one of Texas oldest prisons .
Huntsville is famous for its death row chamber, it is still in use today .
I also show you , the prison cemetery Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery , numerous inmates graves and Henry lee Lucas ,
also known as The Confession Killer,
He was an American convicted murderer.
Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and two others in 1983.
He rose to infamy as a claimed serial killer while incarcerated for these crimes when he falsely confessed to approximately six hundred other murders to Texas Rangers and other law enforcement officials.
Many unsolved cases were closed based on the confessions and the murders officially attributed to Lucas.
Lucas was convicted of murdering eleven people and condemned to death , but later got it overturned .
He died in prison later of heart failure .
The number of people Lucas claimed to have killed was constantly changing .
Almost as soon as he confessed to killing 100 people, the number blossomed to 150, then 200, then to more than 300. At one point, Lucas claimed he was responsible for killing 600 people.
Lucas was on death row for years
But his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1998 by then-Governor George W. Bush. On March 12, 2001, at 11:00 p.m., Lucas was found dead in prison from congestive heart failure at age 64.
I’m not surprised at that anyway . everything I’ve ever saw of him he never had a cigarette out of his mouth .