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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 ]
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 ...
Francisco (1876) last execution in Brazil (former Empire of Brazil) Sidney Harry Fox (1930) Robert Alan Fratta (2023) Ronnie Lee Gardner (2010) Micheal Anak Garing (2019) Juan Garza (2001) Nirmal Jibon Ghosh (1934) Gary Gilmore (1977) first post-Gregg execution in Utah and in the United States; Lewis Eugene Gilbert (2003) Barbara Graham (1955 ...
After Gov. Newsom ended executions in California, a new exclusive ABC7 poll finds most state residents still support the death penalty.
21st-century executions by California (5 P) G. People executed by California by gas chamber (19 P) H. People executed by California by hanging (8 P) L.
The Sunni extremist group ISIS has released a video claiming to show the beheading of American journalist James Foley. The video, which we have chosen not to show, went viral Tuesday. Both YouTube ...
When she was 14 years old, Henry VII arranged her marriage to his favoured cousin and loyal servant, Richard Pole, [21] who was 11 years her senior and from a gentry family. [23] Whilst Richard's mother Edith St. John [ 23 ] was an older half-sister of the King's mother, Margaret Beaufort , [ 24 ] making him from a Lancastrian supporting family ...
Drug cartels in Mexico frequently make videos of dead or captured gang members to intimidate or threaten rivals. Mexican police confirm grisly gang video showing bodies kicked, burned and shot ...