Established as the first prison in Texas in 1849, the Huntsville Unit, commonly referred to as “The Walls Unit,” has gone through many additions and alterations in its almost 175 years of operation. *Note: The photo used in the video was taken in 2021. #TDCJ #TDCJ175 #tbt #ThrowbackThursday #throwback | Texas Department of Criminal Justice

"Before the Execution, His 8-Year-Old Daughter Whispered Something That Left the Guards Frozen — And 24 Hours Later, the Entire State Was Forced to Stop Everything... The first time I saw the execution chamber, it wasn’t in a movie. It was behind two layers of glass in Huntsville, Texas, under lights so bright they made everyone’s skin look guilty. The room smelled like disinfectant and old air-conditioning. Everything was too clean for what it was built to do. My brother, Marcus Hale, sat on th

Heard that Huntsville boom? NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center made history with a bang—imploding two iconic test stands in Huntsville, Alabama, January 10, 2026, to clear the way for a next-generation space campus. (Video courtesy of NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center) | The Huntsville Times