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Woman hired hitman to kill her daughter-in-law; last woman executed in California [10] [164] 11: Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer: Mission Hills: 1959-01-21: Former child star shot and killed trying to collect a $50 debt [165] [166] 12: Karyn Kupcinet: West Hollywood: 1963-11-28
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]
Pages in category "People convicted of murder by California" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 305 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
He was featured in a 2023 Los Angeles Times article detailing how members of the prison-based crime syndicate use smuggled cellphones to collect money and order murders on city streets.
A convicted killer was brutally beaten to death by three other inmates inside a California prison, according to authorities. ... were recruited by the victim’s sister to kidnap and kill him ...
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 ...
Michael Spengler, 38, was attacked Monday around 10:30 a.m. at Salinas Valley State Prison by Miguel Espino, 31, who allegedly used an "inmate-manufactured weapon," according to the California ...
As of 1999 California had paid out several large prison brutality settlements for incidents at Corcoran, including $2.2 million to inmate Vincent Tulumis, paralyzed for life in a May 1993 shooting, and $825,000 for the killing of Preston Tate in April 1994.