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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 ]
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey and as Commanding General of the United States Army from November 1861 to March 1862.
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976
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 ...
A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin's Death Row. California is shutting down death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general population at ...
Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 252 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance: Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 103 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 ...
On April 24, 1972, the Supreme Court of California ruled in People v. Anderson that the state's current death penalty laws were unconstitutional. Justice Marshall F. McComb was the lone dissenter, arguing that the death penalty deterred crime, noting numerous Supreme Court precedents upholding the death penalty's constitutionality, and stating that the legislative and initiative processes were ...