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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]
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Robert Alton Harris (1992) first post-Gregg execution in California; Bruno Hauptmann (1936) Haw Tua Tau (1982) Neville Heath (1946) Gary M. Heidnik (1999) most recent execution in Pennsylvania; Dustin Higgs (2021) most recent execution by the United States federal government; Joe Hill (1915) Paul Jennings Hill (2003) Taberon Honie (2024) most ...
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 ...
Robert Lee Massie was California's longest-serving death row inmate prior to his execution in 2001. Donald Dillbeck was Florida's 100th execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty. Louis Gaskin was executed in Florida in 2023 for a double murder. James Barnes was Florida's 60th execution via lethal injection.
Posthumous pardons for individuals executed before 1950. Inmates who were given life sentences when their country, province or state abolished the death penalty. People who were threatened with death and never jailed. People who were jailed by extralegal groups or courts, for example, as often occurs in cases of sentences of stoning.
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 ...
List of people executed in Alabama; List of people executed in Arizona; List of people executed in Arkansas; List of people executed in California; List of people executed in Colorado