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Along with her husband Ivan, Gonzales was convicted of the 1995 scalding death of her 4-year-old niece, Genevieve Rojas. She was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture and mayhem. They are the first married couple in California on death row for the same crime. 26 years, 5 months and 13 days
[5] 4 February 24, 2000 Betty Lou Beets: 62 46 Texas Lethal injection [6] 5 May 2, 2000 Christina Marie Riggs: 28 26 Arkansas [7] 6 January 11, 2001 Wanda Jean Allen: Black 41 29 Oklahoma [8] 7 May 1, 2001 Marilyn Kay Plantz: White 40 27 [9] 8 December 4, 2001 Lois Nadean Smith: 61 41 [10] 9 May 10, 2002 Lynda Lyon Block: 54 45 Alabama ...
According to a November 2017 report by the World Prison Brief around 212,000 of the 714,000 female prisoners worldwide (women and girls) are incarcerated in the United States. [11] In the United States in 2016, women made up 9.8% of the incarcerated population in adult prisons and jails. [12] [13]
(The scope of our project covers jails — short-term facilities in which many inmates have not been convicted — not prisons.) We are only tracking information from July 13, 2015, to July 13, 2016, even though there will be hundreds of more deaths this year.
The Minnesota Department of Corrections is a state law enforcement agency of Minnesota that operates prisons. Its headquarters is in St. Paul. [1] As of 2010, the state of Minnesota does not contract with private prisons. [2] The first and only private prison in the state, the Prairie Correctional Facility, was closed by its owner in 2010. [3] [4]
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
After Governor Pete Wilson decreed in December 1991 that CCWF shall hold all female death row inmates in California, Maureen McDermott became the first death row inmate at CCWF. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] She was the first woman sentenced to death in a period of several decades, and at one period, she was the only person in the unit. [ 25 ]
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]