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The penalty phase of the trial was then declared a mistrial. A second jury returned a verdict of death. The trial judge upheld the jury's verdict and sentenced Alfaro to death. [5] Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death in the gas chamber, and at the time of sentencing was the third woman on death row in California. [6]
Coffman was the first woman to receive a death sentence in California since the reinstatement of the death penalty in that state in 1977. James Marlow was also sentenced to death. In 2005, Coffman's petition to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari was denied. [20] Kerry Lyn Dalton
[23] [24] She was the first woman sentenced to death in a period of several decades, and at one period, she was the only person in the unit. [25] Initially a set of nine cells in the 504 building, a two-story building for difficult to manage and maximum security prisoners, served as the women's death row.
California ceased death row executions in 2006. ... Bundy died on Dec. 9, 2003, of heart failure at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. Carol Bundy, right, listens as her ...
The 20 women on California’s death row have all been transferred out of the state’s female death row at Central California Women’s Facility. ... Despite signing 2018’s First Step Act, ...
Following a happenstance case break, detectives in Southern California found the person responsible for an unsolved 1986 homicide of a 19-year-old woman – a serial killer already on death row ...
Kerry Lyn Dalton (born January 24, 1960) was convicted of first-degree murder in May 1995 and was sentenced to death by lethal injection the same year. Since her sentencing, she has been incarcerated at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, California, [2] awaiting her execution and appealing her death sentence.
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 ...