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On December 2, 1938, the first execution by lethal gas was conducted. From that date through 1967, 194 people – including four women – were executed by gas, all at San Quentin. Legal challenges and changes. Beginning in 1967, as a result of various state and United States Supreme Court decisions, there were no executions in California for 25 years.
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California Capital Punishment; Timeline of Lethal Injection...
- Number of Executions 1893 to Present
California Capital Punishment; Timeline of Lethal Injection...
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California has executed 13 inmates since re-instatement. Two of California's inmates were executed in other states. List: Inmates on Death Row in California. Below, a timeline of...
Thirteen people have been executed in California since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, though 166 other people have died on death row from other causes (30 of them from suicide) as of October 11, 2023.
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First execution by lethal gas. Robert L. Cannon, 30, and Albert Kessell, 29, died in the chamber on Dec. 2, 1938. They had been convicted of murdering Folsom Penitentiary Warden Clarence Larkin...
Date Executed Time on Death Row Age; Robert Alton Harris: 3/14/1979: 4/21/1992: 13 years, 1 month: 39: David Edwin Mason: 1/27/1984: 8/24/1993: 9 years, 7 months: 36: William George Bonin: 3/22/1982: 2/23/1996: 13 years, 11 months: 49: Keith Daniel Williams: 4/13/1979: 5/3/1996: 17 years, 1 month: 48: Thomas M. Thompson: 8/23/1984: 7/14/1998 ...
Mar 14, 2019 · Voters approved Prop 7 reaffirming the death penalty in California, the current law April 1992 Executions resume in California when Robert Alton Harris is put to death in the San Quentin Gas...
