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In February 1972, the California Supreme Court found that the death penalty constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the California state constitution and 107 condemned inmates were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole and removed from California’s death row.
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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.
No.NameRaceAge1White392White363White494White48Thirteen people have been executed in California since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, though 172 other people have died on death row from other causes (30 of them from suicide) as of April 29, 2024.
As of March 2019, there are 737 inmates on death row in California. Seventy-nine condemned inmates have died of natural causes since 1978, when the state reinstated capital punishment after...
Jul 16, 2014 · David Edwin Mason. Executed Aug. 24, 1993 | 9 years, seven months on death row. David Edwin Mason beat, strangled and robbed four elderly victims within a nine-month period. While being held...