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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 ...
An unsuccessful attempt to pump poison gas directly into his cell at Nevada State Prison led to the development of the first makeshift gas chamber to carry out Jon's death sentence. [33] On December 3, 1948, Miran Thompson and Sam Shockley were executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison for their role in the Battle of Alcatraz.
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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 ...
California hasn't executed any prisoners since 2006, and Gov. Newsom has ordered San Quentin's death row dismantled.
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]