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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 ]
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 ...
List of people executed in the United States in 2000 85 executions; List of people executed in the United States in 2001 66 executions; List of people executed in the United States in 2002 71 executions; List of people executed in the United States in 2003 65 executions; List of people executed in the United States in 2004 59 executions
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 ...
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People executed by California (5 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Prisoners sentenced to death by California" The following 119 pages are in this category, out of 119 total.
Pages in category "People executed by California by gas chamber" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976; List of death row inmates in the United States who have exhausted their appeals