https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.9.htm#9.41

Famous indicent involving these statutes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Horn_shooting_controversy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030414&forum_id=2#36461118)

your honor, i have no further statements.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030414&forum_id=2#36461173)

The following states have enacted three-strikes laws:

New York has employed a habitual felon statute since 1797.[16]

Maryland has had a habitual felon statute for violent offenders since 1975. The law was amended in 1994, meaning that a fourth conviction for a crime of violence mandates a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.

Texas has had a three-strikes with mandatory life sentence since at least 1952.[17]

In Rummel v. Estelle (1980), the US Supreme Court upheld Texas' statute, which arose from a case involving a refusal to repay $120.75 paid for air conditioning repair that was, depending on the source cited, either considered unsatisfactory[18] or not performed at all,[19] where the defendant had been convicted of two prior felony convictions, and where the total amount involved from all three felonies was around $230.[20][21]

In 1993: Washington

In 1994: California,[22] Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Georgia[23]

In 1995: Arkansas, Florida, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, and Vermont[24]

In 2006: Arizona

In 2012: Massachusetts[25]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030414&forum_id=2#36462750)