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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]
Charles Chi-tat Ng (born Ng Chi-tat) (Chinese: 吳志達; Jyutping: ng4 zi3 daat6; born 24 December 1960) is a convicted Hong Kong -born serial killer who committed numerous crimes in the United States. He is believed to have raped, tortured, and murdered between eleven and twenty-five victims with his accomplice Leonard Lake at Lake's cabin in ...
Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and the first woman in Orange County, California, to get the death penalty. Alejandro Avila: Kidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. 19 years, 123 days Hector Ayala: Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop. 34 years, 291 days Ronaldo Ayala
Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside County, California, USA. On October 15, 2008, United States Marine Corps Sergeant Jan Paweł Pietrzak (March 13, 1984 – October 15, 2008) and his wife Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak (February 16, 1982 – October 15, 2008) were tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered by four American Marines.
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 ...
Roger Reece Kibbe (May 21, 1939 – February 28, 2021) was an American serial killer and rapist known as the " I-5 Strangler". [2][3] Kibbe found all but one of his victims on freeways around Sacramento, California. In 1991, he was sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment for the death of Darcie Frackenpohl. [2][4]
Joseph Edward Duncan. Joseph Edward Duncan III (February 25, 1963 – March 28, 2021) [1] was an American convicted serial killer and child molester who was on death row in federal prison following the 2005 kidnappings and murders of members of the Groene family of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He was also serving 11 consecutive sentences of life ...
California Medical Facility. Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women and one girl, between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, as most of his non-familial victims ...