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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 ...
Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and the first woman in Orange County, California, to get the death penalty. Alejandro Avila: Kidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. 19 years, 283 days Hector Ayala: Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop. 35 years, 85 days Ronaldo Ayala
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]
By Linda Deutsch LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A federal judge ruled California's death penalty unconstitutional Wednesday, writing that lengthy and unpredictable delays have resulted in an arbitrary and ...
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They lured their victims with offers of business deals and demanded more than $5.5 million from the victims' family members. They received more than $1 million in ransom but killed their victims ...
California is one of 27 states that still have a death penalty, according to 2023 data from the Death Penalty Information Center. Twenty-three states do not use capital punishment. Twenty-three ...