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Mar 13, 2019 · Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to impose a moratorium on the death penalty in California. These are the men and women currently on death row.
- The 13 Executed
More than 850 people have been sentenced to death in...
- Too Insane to Execute
On his worst days on death row, Ronnie McPeters hoards his...
- 20 Inmates
In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that execution of the...
- The 13 Executed
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- Famous Cases
- Notable Exonerations
- Notable Commutations and Clemencies
- Milestones in Abolition and Reinstatement
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1977 – State Legislature overrides Governor Jerry Brown’s veto and reinstates the death penalty, allowing for capital punishment in first degree murders with any of 12 special circumstances. 1978 – California voters pass the Briggs Initiative which creates California’s current death penalty statute, adding 16 more special circumstances, for a total...
Manuel Babbittwas a Vietnam War Veteran who was executed in 1999 for murdering an elderly Sacramento woman. Babbitt served two combat tours in Vietnam and, while on death row, received the Purple Heart for wounds he received during the Battle of Khe Sanh. After the war, Babbitt was diagnosed with a post-traumatic stress disorder and paranoid schizo...
In early 1941, Fred Rogers’s mother committed suicide by inhaling chloroform. Nine months later his grieving father died of smoke inhalation after deliberately setting his house on fire. Police, suspicious of the two deaths, arrested Fred Rogers for murder. During the interrogation, the interviewers told Rogers that they had enough evidence to send...
William Lindley was sentenced to death for the 1943 murder of a 13 year-old girl. The redheaded Lindley was an illiterate and mentally ill itinerant farmer from Central California. During the investigation, police relied on testimony from a shepherd who witnessed the attack, claiming that the attacker was a redhead. Furthermore, the little girl her...
1872 – Capital punishment authorized in state Penal Code 1972 – California Supreme Court declares death penalty unconstitutional. 107 condemned prisoners resentenced. California voters pass Proposition 17, an initiative that amends the California Constitution to provide that the death penalty is not cruel or unusual punishment.
California’s death row is the largest in the country with more than 665 condemned prisoners (as of January 1, 2023 DRUSA). During the 2016 campaign on Propositions 62 and 66, the Yes on 62 (death penalty abolition) campaign made the dramatic assertion that “California is home to the largest death row population in the Western Hemisphere.” PolitiFac...
California Capital Punishment; Timeline of Lethal Injection Protocol Regulations; History of Capital Punishment in California; Condemned Population List; Condemned Population Summary; Condemned Incarcerated People Who Have Died Since 1978; Incarcerated People Executed 1978 to Present; Number of Executions 1893 to Present; Condemned Inmate ...
Jan 1, 2023 · Racial Demographics. Current U.S. Death Row Population by Race. State-by-State Death Row Populations by Race. as of January 1, 2023. (In this table, the total of inmates on death row will be slightly higher than the national total of 2,331 because some inmates were sentenced to death in more than one state and hence will be counted twice.)
May 1, 2023 · Black people make up 6.5% of California’s population, but more than one-third of those on death row. The vast majority of those sentenced to death over the last decade have been...
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Mar 13, 2019 · 737 inmates on death row. California’s total death row population was 737 as of March 12, 2019, according to a tally by the California Department of Corrections. That’s down slightly from 746 ...
Jan 17, 2006 · There are 650 (as of 1/2024) individuals on California’s death row, the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Of those, 630 are men imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, and 20 are women held at the Central California Women’s Facility in Madera County. Age range: 20s – 90s (majority of men and women: 50 – 59 years).
