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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 ]
Taiwan. 2012. Su Chien-ho (蘇建和), Liu Bing-lang (劉秉郎) and Chuang Lin-hsun (莊林勳) were sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of Wu Ming-han and his wife Yeh Ying-lan in Xizhi District, Taipei County, Taiwan. They were acquitted in 2012. [10] 2016.
Laguna Beach, California: Death Executed No Thompson was convicted and executed for the rape and murder of Ginger Fleischli, a crime for which he is widely believed to be innocent. [125] [126] [127] He was mainly convicted on the evidence of two notorious informants who claimed Thompson had admitted committing the crime in jail. The prosecution ...
December 15, 2023 at 8:34 AM. Mr Solorio spent 25 years in prison over a crime he did not commit (Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office) Two men who spent decades behind bars on murder ...
[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 175 other people have died on death row from other causes (30 of them from suicide) as of August 3, 2024. [25]
August 29, 1965 (age 59) Brenham, Texas, US. Known for. Wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death; later exonerated. Short video by Amnesty International. Anthony Charles Graves (born August 29, 1965) is the 138th exonerated death row inmate in America. [1] With no record of violence, [1] he was arrested at 26 years old, wrongfully convicted ...
Barbara Graham. Barbara Elaine "Bonnie" Wood Graham (née Ford; June 26, 1923 – June 3, 1955) was an American criminal convicted of murder. She was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison on the same day as two convicted accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, all of whom were involved in a robbery that led to the murder of an ...
Kevin Cooper (born Richard Goodman; January 8, 1958) [1] is an American man currently imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison 's death row. [2] Cooper was found guilty of four murders in the Chino Hills area of California in 1983. Cooper's conviction has garnered repeated attention from both Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times [3] and Erin ...