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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 ...
California State Forgery: Ray White Unknown 6 March 1840 South Carolina State Counterfeiting: Thomas Davis [24] White 60 11 October 1822 Alabama State Bestiality: Joseph Ross [25] [Note 3] [26] White Unknown 1785 Pennsylvania: State Concealing the birth/death of an infant: Hannah Piggen [27] Unknown Unknown 1785 Massachusetts: State Adultery
California hasn’t executed a condemned prisoner in nearly 20 years, but prosecutors continue to seek the death penalty, leading to court costs of more than $300 million in the last five years ...
Last execution date Name Crime Method C Algeria: August 1993 [1] seven unnamed Islamic terrorists: terrorism: firing squad: A Angola: 1977 [2] Nito Alves and many of his supporters treason: firing squad: A Benin: 23 September 1987 [3] murder: A Bophuthatswana: 13 December 1990 [4] [5] Alpheus Sekoboane murder: hanging: D Botswana: 11 June 2021 ...
On death row: 1 (2014) Total number executed: 24 (1700–1939) [20] Note: On May 30, 2019, the state Senate voted to override Governor Chris Sununu's veto on a bill that abolished the state's death penalty 16–8. Since the veto had already been overridden by the state House of Representatives, the bill immediately became law and repealed ...
Twenty people have been executed by South Dakota under the death penalty since 1877. The most recent execution was in 2019 when Charles Russell Rhines died by lethal injection for the 1992 murder ...
List of people executed in California; List of people executed in Colorado; ... This page was last edited on 8 January 2025, at 21:18 (UTC).