List of people executed in California
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of California since capital punishment was resumed 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] The first 2 executions were by gas inhalation; all subsequent executions were by lethal injection,[2] following a 1996 federal court (9th Circuit) ruling that the use of the gas chamber in California was unconstitutional.[3] A further 2 people sentenced to death in California (Kelvin Malone and Alfredo Prieto) were executed in Missouri and Virginia.[4]
| # | Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of Execution |
Method of Execution |
Victim(s) | Governor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Alton Harris | White | 39 | M | April 21, 1992 | Gas chamber | John Mayeski and Michael Baker | Pete Wilson |
| 2 | David Edwin Mason | White | 36 | M | August 24, 1993 | Joan Picard, Arthur Jennings, Boyd Johnson, Antionette Brown, and Dorothy Land | ||
| 3 | William George Bonin | White | 49 | M | February 23, 1996 | Lethal injection | Marcus Grabs, Donald Hyden, David Murillo, Dennis Frank Fox, Charles Miranda, James McCabe, Ronald Gatlin, Harry Todd Turner, Russell Rugh, Glenn Barker, Steven Wood, Darin Lee Kendrick, Lawrence Sharp, and Steven Jay Wells | |
| 4 | Keith Daniel Williams | White | 48 | M | May 3, 1996 | Lourdes Meza, Miguel Vargas, and Salvador Vargas | ||
| 5 | Thomas Martin Thompson | White | 43 | M | July 14, 1998 | Ginger Fleischli | ||
| 6 | Jaturun Siripongs | Asian | 47 | M | February 9, 1999 | Packovan Wattanaporn and Quach Nguyen | Gray Davis | |
| 7 | Manuel Pina Babbitt | Black | 50 | M | May 4, 1999 | Leah Schendel | ||
| 8 | Darrell Keith Rich | Native American | 45 | M | March 15, 2000 | Annette Fay Edwards, Patricia Ann Moore, Linda Diane Slavik, and Annette Lynn Selix | ||
| 9 | Robert Lee Massie | White | 59 | M | March 27, 2001 | Boris G. Naumoff | ||
| 10 | Stephen Wayne Anderson | White | 48 | M | January 29, 2002 | Elizabeth Lyman | ||
| 11 | Donald Jay Beardslee | White | 61 | M | January 19, 2005 | Stacey Benjamin and Patty Geddling | Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
| 12 | Stanley Tookie Williams | Black | 51 | M | December 13, 2005 | Albert Owens, Yen-Yi Yang, Tsai-Shai Lin, and Yee-Chen Lin | ||
| 13 | Clarence Ray Allen | Native American | 76 | M | January 17, 2006 | Mary Sue Kitts, Bryon Schletewitz, Josephine Rocha, and Douglas White |
See also
References
- ^ "Execution Database | Death Penalty Information Center". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
- ^ "The History of Capital Punishment in California". California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Archived from the original on 2016-03-02. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
- ^ Fierro, Ruiz, Harris v. Gomez, 77 F.3d 301 (U.S. 9th Circuit 1996).
- ^ "Inmates Executed 1978 to Present". California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Retrieved November 17, 2021.