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The penalty phase of the trial was then declared a mistrial. A second jury returned a verdict of death. The trial judge upheld the jury's verdict and sentenced Alfaro to death. [5] Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death in the gas chamber, and at the time of sentencing was the third woman on death row in California. [6]
A convicted murderer who has been on California’s death row for 33 years must either be released or retried after a federal judge on Thursday approved the state attorney general’s request to ...
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 ...
William Richard Bradford (May 18, 1946 – March 10, 2008) was an American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer and serial rapist who was incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison for the 1984 murders of his 15-year-old neighbor Tracey Campbell and barmaid Shari Miller.
Suff was on California’s death row at the San Quentin prison, having been convicted of 12 murders in Riverside County. Suff was known as the Riverside Prostitute Killer, or Lake Elsinore Killer.
Jurijus Kadamovas was born on October 22, 1966, in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Iouri Gherman Mikhel was born on April 9, 1965, in Leningrad, USSR. [5] Both men were foreign nationals who emigrated to the United States and lived in Los Angeles, California.
California’s death row, like the state itself, is the nation’s most populous. Its wardens and guards have told stories over the decades of condemned men they remembered most: One prisoner ...
Masters is also author of Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke & Opened My Heart, [16] as well as poems, short stories, articles, essays, and an op-ed in The Guardian newspaper. [17] Masters is the subject of the book The Buddhist on Death Row by author David Sheff , [ 12 ] the iHeart Radio two-season podcast Dear Governor, [ 18 ] and an op-ed ...