Overview: Napoleon Beazley was executed by lethal injection May 29, 2002, for a murder he committed in 1994. He was on death row in Texas, which has executed 269 people since 1982, more than any other U.S. state in those 20 years. CNN's Christiane Amanpour examines the death penalty process in Texas by following the Beazley case through the criminal justice system.