Innocence Claims of Executed Inmates

Since the reinstatement of the death penalty by the US Supreme Court, Texas has executed 368 people. According to the last statements published on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website[1], at least 28 out of 368 executed inmates claimed that they were innocent at the time of execution. (Please note, however, that about half of the inmates did not state their last words or TDCJ does not have a record of their statement, therefore it is not possible to know the exact number of inmates claiming to be innocent.)
Also many inmates such as Ruben Cantu and Carlos De Luna did not state their innocence in their last statement!

The following people are known to have claimed innocence in their last statement:

Name	Date of Execution
Johnny R Anderson	May 17, 1990
James Smith	June 26, 1990
Leonel Torres Herrera	May 12, 1993
Jesse Dewayne Jacobs	January 4, 1995
Carl Johnson	September 19, 1999
David Wayne Spence	April 3, 1997
Anthony Ray Westley	May 13, 1997
Robert Anthony Madden	May 28, 1997
Eddie James Johnson	June 17, 1997
Frank Basil McFarlan	April 29, 1998
Pedro Cruz Muniz	May 18, 1998
Martin Sauceda Vega	January 26, 1999
Charles Anthony Boyd	August 5, 1999
Billy George Hughes	January 24, 2000
Paul Selso Nuncio	June 15, 2000
Joiner, Orien Cecil	July, 12 2000
Jones, Richard	August 22, 2000
Mack Hill	August 8, 2001
Gerald Tigner	March 7, 2002
Robert Coulson	June 25, 2002
Richard Kutzner	August 7, 2002
Craig Ogan	November 19, 2002
William Chappell	November 20, 2002
Willingham, Cameron Todd	February 17, 2004
Patterson, Kelsey	May 18, 2004
Ramirez, Luis	October 20, 2005

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[1] http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/executedoffenders.htm
[2] Texas Death Row