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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 ]
Name Race Age Sex Date of execution Method Victim(s) President 1 Timothy James McVeigh: White 33 M June 11, 2001 Lethal injection: 8 federal law enforcement officers [a] George W. Bush: 2 Juan Raul Garza: Hispanic 44 M June 19, 2001 Thomas Albert Rumbo, Gilberto Matos, and Erasmo De La Fuente [b] 3 Louis Jones Jr. Black 53 M March 18, 2003
The victim is placed in cage hanging from a gallows-type structure in a public location and left to die to deter other existing or potential criminals. Immurement. The confinement of the victim by walling in. Though this was also used as a form of imprisonment for life, in which case, the victim was usually fed and watered.
Location Date Deaths Description Sources 1: Lexington murders: Lexington: 1883-03-11: 2: Double murder, two of the perpetrators were hanged [1] [2] [3] 2: Los Angeles Times bombing: Los Angeles: 1910-10-1: 21: Union member bombed the Los Angeles Times building [4] 3: Adele Ritchie: Laguna Beach: 1930-04-24: 2
However, on others such as IRIX, Linux, and FreeBSD, an argument is supplied specifying the name of the process (or processes) to kill. For instance, to kill a process such as an instance of the XMMS music player invoked by xmms, the user would run the command killall xmms. This would kill all processes named xmms, and is equivalent to kill ...
Country music star Merle Haggard stated in an interview in 1995 that many years earlier, when he was a prison inmate, observing Chessman's preparations for his execution helped to set him on the straight and narrow. [46] Chessman, a 2016 play by Joe Rodota, tells the story of the execution from the viewpoint of Governor Pat Brown. [47]
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 ...