This Week in Texas Prison History

December 1: 

1933 - Huntsville Unit (Walls) - Pantaleon Ortiz was electrocuted at the State penitentiary here early today for the jealous slaying of his sweetheart and a rival at Refugio. The 34-year-old Refugio Mexican went to his death at 12:13 a.m. making no statement, He had been reprieved four times. (AP, San Antonio Express, December 12, 1933)