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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 ]
Death in Riverside County, California (3 C, 12 P) B. Burials in California (5 C) C. Capital punishment in California (2 C, 17 P) D. Deaths in California (11 C) M.
The following is a list of people who have died by drowning in the American state of California. Pages in category "Deaths by drowning in California" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
B. David Bailey (actor) James Banning; Jack Barnett (baseball) Robbie Basho; Oskar Baudisch; Catherine Bauer Wurster; Lincoln Beachey; Orson Bean; Mike Bell (wrestler)
Eugene Nickerson, 83, American county executive and judge, complications from ulcer surgery. [2] Carol Ohmart, 74, American actress (House on Haunted Hill, The Wild Party, The Scarlet Hour) and model. Julia Phillips, 57, American film producer (The Sting, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and author, Oscar winner , cancer. [3]
Four hours after Eugene Wesley Youngblood was arrested earlier this month on drug charges, the 42-year-old man was found dead in the Lancaster sheriff's station jail.
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 ...