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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. [1]
Executions must be approved by the president of the United States. [2] Executions require a Summary courts martial, they are therefore subject an automatic process of review. [3] The first four of these executions, those of Bernard John O'Brien, Chastine Beverly, Louis M. Suttles and James L. Riggins, were carried out by military officials at ...
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 ...
2. Struggling actor murdered soldier to steal his combat pay and then murdered a friend of the soldier to make it appear the soldier killed her and then disappeared. [40] [41] 31. 2011 Seal Beach shooting. Seal Beach. 2011-10-12. 8. Mass shooting at a hair salon, deadliest mass shooting in Orange County history.
Criminal penalty. Death. Elizabeth Ann Duncan (born Hazel Lucille Sinclaira Nigh [1] (April 16, 1904 [2] in Kansas City, Missouri [3] – August 8, 1962) was an American murderer. She was convicted of orchestrating the murder of her daughter-in-law in 1958. She was the last woman to be executed in California before the United States Supreme ...
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 ...
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.
Murder of John Wait. John Black, Mahlon Christie, Isaac Kent, and George Orcote. 4 June 1814 (other accounts indicate date was in the spring of 1812 or around New Year's Eve 1813) [15] Shot. Desertion. James Graham [15] 29 July 1814. Hanging. Murders of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGiffrey.