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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 ...
Los Angeles: 1996-02-25: Academy Award winning actor murdered in robbery outside his house [10] [7] [195] [196] 44: Murder of Ennis Cosby: Los Angeles: 1997-01-16: Son of Bill Cosby shot in the head in robbery attempt at the Mulholland exit to the 405 freeway [7] [197] 45: Murder of the Notorious B.I.G. Los Angeles: 1997-03-09: Murder of rapper ...
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The son of award-winning photographer Paul Lowe has been charged with his murder after he was assaulted on a hiking trail in California. On Saturday, Oct. 12, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's ...
It received more than $11,500 in donations after detailing her goal of transferring Manizak from Los Angeles County to a facility in Lassen County. The post's description also said she wanted to ...
Frank "Bomp" Bompensiero (October 29, 1905 – February 10, 1977) was a Sicilian-American mobster who was a longtime caporegime in the Los Angeles crime family.In 1956, with the death of boss Jack Dragna, Bompensiero was demoted to the rank of soldier by the new boss, Frank DeSimone.