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The Hillside Strangler (later the Hillside Stranglers) is the media epithet for an American serial killer—later discovered to be a duo, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono—who terrorized the women of Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978, during a time when Southern California was plagued by several active serial killers.
Josefa Segovia, also known as Juanita or Josefa Loaiza, was a Mexican-American woman who was lynched by hanging in Downieville, California, on July 5, 1851. [1] She is known as the first recorded Mexican woman to be lynched in California. [2] Josefa is also an important figure in Chicana feminist theory. [3]
Date of execution Name Race Age at execution Age at offense State Method Ref. 1 November 2, 1984 Margie Velma Barfield: White 52 45 North Carolina: Lethal injection [3] 2 February 3, 1998 Karla Faye Tucker: 38 23 Texas [4] 3 March 30, 1998 Judias "Judy" V. Buenoano: 54 28 Florida: Electrocution [5] 4 February 24, 2000 Betty Lou Beets: 62 46 ...
Elizabeth Ann Duncan (born Hazel Lucille Sinclaira Nigh [1] (April 16, 1904 [2] in Kansas City, Missouri [3] – August 8, 1962) was an American murderer. She was convicted of orchestrating the murder of her daughter-in-law in 1958.
Barring the granting of clemency, she stands to become the first female British national to be executed since Ruth Ellis in 1955, and the first British black woman executed in more than a century. In 2014, key witnesses against her, including a DEA agent for whom she worked as an informant, recanted and claimed they were coerced into testifying ...
Tributes poured in Sunday for a California woman who was killed for flying a rainbow-colored Pride flag outside her store. Laura Ann Carleton, 66, was fatally shot Friday evening at the clothing ...
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
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 ]