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  2. List of people executed in California - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Capital punishment in California - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. People v. Anderson - Wikipedia

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    The People of the State of California v. Robert Page Anderson , 493 P.2d 880, 6 Cal. 3d 628 ( Cal. 1972), was a landmark case in the state of California that outlawed capital punishment for nine months until the enactment of a constitutional amendment reinstating it, Proposition 17 .

  5. Category : People executed by California by gas chamber

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  6. California's new governor may commute death sentences - AOL

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    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom not only put a moratorium on executions in California on Wednesday, he said he also may commute death sentences and is pushing to repeal capital ...

  7. Aaron Mitchell (murderer) - Wikipedia

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    Aaron Mitchell (d. April 12, 1967) was executed in the gas chamber for murdering police officer Arnold Gamble in Sacramento on February 15, 1963.. Mitchell was the last person to be executed in California before the Supreme Court of California ruled in 1972 that capital punishment was unconstitutional (the Supreme Court of the United States made a similar ruling later that year).