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  2. Crime in California - Wikipedia

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    The death penalty (also known as capital punishment) is legal in California, [14] although Governor Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on the use on March 13, 2019. [15] The last execution was issued for Clarence Ray Allen on January 17, 2006, through lethal injection .

  3. List of United States cities by crime rate - Wikipedia

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    For the 2019 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2010 decennial population counts and 2011 through 2018 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

  4. Capital punishment in California - Wikipedia

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    On April 24, 1972, the Supreme Court of California ruled in People v. Anderson that the state's current death penalty laws were unconstitutional. Justice Marshall F. McComb was the lone dissenter, arguing that the death penalty deterred crime, noting numerous Supreme Court precedents upholding the death penalty's constitutionality, and stating that the legislative and initiative processes were ...

  5. Cost of seeking death penalty is high in California — but the ...

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    Because nearly all of California inmates with capital sentences have been moved off of Death Row and placed in regular high-security prisons — such as California State Prison, Sacramento, near ...

  6. Is California’s death penalty ‘racially discriminatory?’ Why ...

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    California capital punishment. Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019 signed an executive order placing a moratorium on state executions, saying the death penalty is “ineffective, irreversible and immoral ...

  7. The US has executed 23 men this year. A look at the state of ...

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    The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by far the most inmates, at 591. The US has executed 23 men this year.

  8. California locations by crime rate - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of California locations by crime rate based on FBI's Uniform Crime Reports from 2014. In 2014, California reported 153,709 violent crimes (3.96 for every 1,000 people) and 947,192 property crimes (24.41 for every 1,000 people). These rates are very similar for the average county and city in California. [citation needed]

  9. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

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    Proposition 66, a ballot measure passed by California voters in 2016, allows prison officials to transfer condemned incarcerated people to any state prison that provides the necessary level of security. The State of California took full control of capital punishment in 1891. Originally, executions took place at San Quentin and at Folsom State ...