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Jorge Avila-Torrez. Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 44 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois .
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]
Summary of scheduled executions[edit] As of July 3, 2024 [update], a total of 38 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in six U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 12 pending motions to set an execution date across seven states. [3] Year. Executions. 2024.
Warden. Chance Andes. San Quentin Rehabilitation Center ( SQ ), formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, [2] is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated [3] place of San Quentin in Marin County . Established in 1852, and opening in 1854, [4] San ...
Richard Allen Davis (born June 2, 1954) is an American convicted murderer whose criminal record fueled support for the passage of California 's "three-strikes law" for repeat offenders and the involuntary civil commitment act for sex offenders and predators. He was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder with special circumstances (burglary ...
George Atzerodt (1865) assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln. Jean Bastien-Thiry (1963) attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle. John Bellingham (1812) assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. Eliyahu Bet-Zuri (1945) assassination of Lord Moyne.
English. Procedure 769, Witness to an Execution is a 1995 Dutch documentary film by director Jaap van Hoewijk about the gas chamber execution of convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris in 1992. The documentary features interviews of eleven witnesses to Harris's execution, including members of Harris's victims' families, members of Harris's ...
Terry Melvin Sims was the first person executed by lethal injection in the state of Florida. Mark James Asay was the first person executed by lethal injection using the drug etomidate. Robert Lee Massie was California's longest-serving death row inmate prior to his execution in 2001. Donald Dillbeck was Florida's 100th execution since the ...