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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
After Governor Pete Wilson decreed in December 1991 that CCWF shall hold all female death row inmates in California, Maureen McDermott became the first death row inmate at CCWF. [ 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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 249 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance: Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 100 days Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace
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 ...