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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]
Stephen Wayne Anderson (July 8, 1953 – January 29, 2002) was an American contract killer and serial killer who was executed at California's San Quentin State Prison by lethal injection in 2002 for the murder of Elizabeth Lyman. He was either known to have killed or admitted to the killings of at least eight other people, including a fellow ...
[12] [24] Serial killer William Bonin was the first person to be executed under these new laws, on February 23, 1996. Thirteen people have been executed in California since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, though 180 other people have died on death row from other causes (30 of them from suicide) as of December 16, 2024. [25]
California has been home to some of the most notorious serial killers in history. The " Golden State Killer," Joseph James DeAngelo, murdered 13 people and committed over 50 sexual assaults from ...
Darrell Keith Rich (February 14, 1955 – March 15, 2000), [1] known as The Hilltop Rapist, was an American serial killer who murdered three women and an 11-year-old girl in Redding, California between June and August 1978. [2]
Serial killer and rapist known as the "I-5 Strangler" [126] 19: Joseph Naso: Northern California: 1977–1994: 6–10: Serial killer and rapist [127] 20: Richard Trenton Chase: Sacramento: 1977–1978: 6: Serial killer, necrophile, and cannibal that murdered 6 men, women, and children at random in a month long killing spree [128] 21: Skid Row ...
Harvey Murray Glatman (December 10, 1927 – September 18, 1959) was an American serial killer and rapist during the late 1950s known as the Lonely Hearts Killer or the Glamour Girl Slayer. He would use several pseudonyms , posing as a professional photographer to lure his victims with the promise of a modeling career.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. A serial killer is typically a person who kills three or more people, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial murder as "a series of two or more murders ...