Texas has the death penalty and they aren’t shy about using it.
But there is a problem. Delay. It is not like the olden days when an assassin could be executed within 40 days of the crime. The murder of Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago as an example of how it should be.
Ecclesiastes 8:11King James Version (KJV)
11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.