San Antone. The 2003 film, The Life of David Gale, was shot in multiple places, including Huntsville, Texas. In the film, Kevin Spacey played the eponymous character, a college professor and longtime activist against capital punishment who is sentenced to death for killing a fellow capital punishment opponent. Jason Boland & The Stragglers released a song off 2015 CD Squelch titled "Christmas in Huntsville". See also List of Texas state prisons Texas Prison Rodeo Capital punishment in Texas Footnotes External links Huntsville Unit - Texas Department of Criminal Justice Texas Prison Board: An Inventory of Records of the Texas Prison System at the Texas State Archive 1913-1933, 1943, undated List of prisoners at the Huntsville Unit - The Texas Tribune Texas Prison Museum "Inside Death Row." - National Geographic Explorer 1849 establishments in Texas Prisons in Huntsville, Texas Women's prisons in Texas Capital punishment in Texas Execution sites in the United States