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Summary of scheduled executions. As of September 11, 2024, a total of 38 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in seven U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 12 pending motions to set an execution date across five states. [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]
On death row: 176 [93] Total number executed: 1340 (1800–2024) [19] Due to the number of Texas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages or part of a criminal enterprise with a separate Wikipedia page are listed. The full list is externally linked: Faces of Death Row: The Texas Tribune; List of death row inmates in Texas
Luis Bracamontes. BG0828. Convicted of murdering two police officers in 2014. [12][13] Dean Carter. C97919. Convicted of murdering 4 people in 1984, and suspected of killing at least one other person. [14][15] Steven David Catlin. D32989. Convicted of poisoning his two wives and his adoptive mother.
This is its gruesome history. California is closing San Quentin's death row. This is its gruesome history. February 8, 2022 at 5:00 AM. Could this be the end of the line for the end of the line ...
September 10, 2024 at 6:00 AM. A California death row inmate who gained national attention after Oprah Winfrey selected his autobiography for her influential book club in 2022 has vowed to ...
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 ...
[6] Most of the prison's death row inmates resided in the East Block. The fourth floor of the North Block was the prison's first death row facility, but additional death row space opened after executions resumed in the U.S. in 1978. The adjustment center received solid doors, preventing "gunning-down" or attacking persons with bodily waste.