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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]
Mark Hopkinson (1992) first post-Gregg execution in Wyoming and last execution in Wyoming; Walter Horsford (1898) Took Leng How (2006) James W. Hutchins (1984) first post-Gregg execution in North Carolina; James Inglis (1951) Paul Irniger (1939) Kho Jabing (2016) Mohammed Ali bin Johari (2008) Corey Johnson (2021) Ernest Lee Johnson (2021)
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David Scarborough Lawson (1994) – Gas chamber. Lawson's execution was the first gas chamber execution in North Carolina after 1976. After cyanide pellets were dropped into a bowl of sulfuric acid beneath the restraining chair, the acid splashed onto his right leg, causing him to strain so hard that the strap securing his right leg broke ...
List of people executed in the United States in 2007 42 executions; List of people executed in the United States in 2008 37 executions; List of people executed in the United States in 2009 52 executions; List of people executed in the United States in 2010 46 executions; List of people executed in the United States in 2011 43 executions; List ...
California hasn't executed any prisoners since 2006, and Gov. Newsom has ordered San Quentin's death row dismantled. California is closing San Quentin's death row. This is its gruesome history
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 ...
Confederate South Carolina: Military Conspiracy to commit murder: Five unnamed Yuki men [22] Native: Unknown 21 July 1863 California State Piracy: Nathaniel Gordon [Note 1] White 30 21 February 1862 New York Federal Slave revolt: Caesar, Sam, and Sanford Black Unknown 19 October 1860 Alabama State Treason: William Bruce Mumford [Note 2] White ...