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The first 2 executions were by gas inhalation; all subsequent executions were by lethal injection, [2] following a 1996 federal court (9th Circuit) ruling that the use of the gas chamber in California was unconstitutional. [3] A further 2 people sentenced to death in California (Kelvin Malone and Alfredo Prieto) were executed in Missouri and ...
All executions in California (male and female) take place at San Quentin. [15] The execution chamber is located in a one-story addition close to the East Block. [19] Women executed in California are transported to San Quentin by bus before being executed. [23] The methods for execution at San Quentin have changed over time. Prior to 1893, the ...
Spinelli's original execution was delayed for 30 days by Culbert Olson. [13] Following two further repreives, [14] she was executed on November 21, 1941, at the age of 52, in the gas chamber at San Quentin. [15] [16] A week later, Mike Simeone her 'first lieutenant and common-law husband' was executed, along with Gordon Hawkins. [17]
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Barbara Elaine "Bonnie" Wood Graham (née Ford; June 26, 1923 – June 3, 1955) was an American criminal convicted of murder.She was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison on the same day as two convicted accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, all of whom were involved in a robbery that led to the murder of an elderly widow.
Miran Edgar Thompson (December 16, 1917 – December 3, 1948) [1] was an inmate of Alcatraz whose participation in an attempted escape on May 2, 1946, led to his execution in the gas chamber of San Quentin. At the time of the Battle of Alcatraz, Thompson was serving life plus 99 years for murder of Texan police officer Detective Lemuel Dodd ...
The first execution via gas chamber since the restoration of the death penalty was in Nevada in 1979, when Jesse Bishop was executed for murder. The most recent execution via gas chamber was in 1999. [35] By the 1980s, reports of suffering during gas chamber executions had led to controversy over the use of this method. [36]