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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 ...
Conflicting sources report various causes of death, including heart and liver failure, [412] heart failure and pneumonia after a drug overdose, [413] and blood poisoning from heroin addiction [414] Billy Mackenzie: 1957 1997 39 Musician Unspecified Unknown [415] Jim Magnuson: 1946 1991 44 Baseball pitcher Alcohol Unknown [416] Jesse Mahelona ...
Drug-related suicides in California (46 P) Pages in category "Drug-related deaths in California" The following 137 pages are in this category, out of 137 total.
California Proposition 7, or the Death Penalty Act, is a ballot proposition approved in California by statewide ballot on November 7, 1978. Proposition 7 increased the penalties for first degree murder and second degree murder, expanded the list of special circumstances requiring a death sentence or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and revised existing law relating to ...
A Santa Clarita man was charged this week in what federal prosecutors believe is the country's first death due to a synthetic opioid three times stronger than fentanyl. Benjamin Anthony Collins ...
Proposition 17 of 1972 was a measure enacted by California voters to reintroduce the death penalty in that state. The California Supreme Court had ruled on February 17, 1972, that capital punishment was contrary to the state constitution.
Because nearly all of California inmates with capital sentences have been moved off of Death Row and placed in regular high-security prisons — such as California State Prison, Sacramento, near ...
One looked at more than 55,000 homicide cases in California between 1979 and 2018 and found that Black individuals were more than twice as likely to receive a death sentence as white individuals ...