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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of California since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia, the following 13 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of California. [1]
Robert Alton Harris (1992) first post-Gregg execution in California; Bruno Hauptmann (1936) Haw Tua Tau (1982) Neville Heath (1946) Gary M. Heidnik (1999) most recent execution in Pennsylvania; Dustin Higgs (2021) most recent execution by the United States federal government; Joe Hill (1915) Paul Jennings Hill (2003) Taberon Honie (2024) most ...
Executioners, also when slaves, were paid for their executions; at the example of the province of Minas Gerais, we can establish payment was between 4$000 and 12$000 (4 Mil-Reis to 12 Mil-Reis) per execution. The last execution of a free convict in Brazil was that of José Pereira de Sousa October 30, 1861 in Santa Luzia (nowadays Luziânia), GO.
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Mark James Asay was the first person executed by lethal injection using the drug etomidate. Robert Lee Massie was California's longest-serving death row inmate prior to his execution in 2001. Donald Dillbeck was Florida's 100th execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty. Louis Gaskin was executed in Florida in 2023 for a double murder.
California hasn't executed any prisoners since 2006, and Gov. Newsom has ordered San Quentin's death row dismantled. California is closing San Quentin's death row. This is its gruesome history
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Five unnamed Yuki men [22] Native: Unknown 21 July 1863 California State Piracy: Nathaniel Gordon [Note 1] White 30 21 February 1862 New York Federal Slave revolt: Caesar, Sam, and Sanford Black Unknown 19 October 1860 Alabama State Treason: William Bruce Mumford [Note 2] White 42 7 June 1862 Union-occupied New Orleans, Louisiana: Military