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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 ...
Executed by gas chamber on June 6, 1962. [191] Elizabeth Ann Duncan: convicted of hiring two men to kill her daughter-in-law, executed by gas chamber on August 8, 1962. Fourth and last woman to be executed in San Quentin. [192] Aaron Mitchell: convicted of shooting a Sacramento police officer, executed by gas chamber on April 12, 1967. [193]
Convicted of the 1980 rape and murder of Susan Jordan, and Brown was supposed to be executed in 2010, but was called off. [10] [11] Luis Bracamontes: BG0828 Convicted of murdering two police officers in 2014. [12] [13] Dean Carter: C97919 Convicted of murdering 4 people in 1984, and suspected of killing at least one other person. [14] [15 ...
Its 737 residents, all still technically under sentence of death, are slowly being moved away from the condemned cells at San Quentin, a place where California has, by three successive methods ...
Pages in category "People executed by California by gas chamber" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison prior to its disassembly in March 2019. Prior to the completion of the lethal injection room lethal injections were performed within the gas chamber with staff removing the chairs and placing a gurney within the chamber to execute an individual.
People executed by California by gas chamber (19 P) People executed by Colorado by gas chamber (3 P) F.
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]