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Apr 26, 2024 · This page is updated each business day by 12 pm Eastern Time. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.
Mar 13, 2019 · The order will prevent the state from putting prisoners to death by granting temporary reprieves to all 737 condemned inmates on California’s death row, the largest in the nation.
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.
Inmates Executed 1978 to Present - Capital Punishment. WARNING: The following crime summaries contain graphic descriptions of one or more murders and may not be suitable for all audiences. California Executions Since 1978. California Inmates Executed in Other States Since 1978.
This list includes all executions since 1976. For a historical database of executions, visit our Espy Database page. Geographical regions are listed as determined by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Federal Executions are included in the region in which the crime occurred. For Federal Executions sort by the federal yes/ no column.
Thirteen 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.
Mar 13, 2019 · SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's Democratic governor announced Wednesday he was temporarily shutting down the nation's most populous death row. Since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1978, it has executed 13 inmates, the last one in 2006.
