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Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and the first woman in Orange County, California, to get the death penalty. Alejandro Avila: Kidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. 19 years, 140 days Hector Ayala: Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop. 34 years, 308 days Ronaldo Ayala
Eddie Lee Sexton. Eddie Lee Sexton (May 12, 1942 – December 29, 2010) was an American convicted murderer and rapist known for compelling his children to murder and for committing sexual abuse against his own family, which he ruled in a cult-like manner. [1] He fathered at least three children with two of his daughters. [2]
by The Paper Chase. Evil Lives Here is an American documentary television series on Investigation Discovery that debuted on January 17, 2016. This 60-minute true crime show spends each episode interviewing a family member of the highlighted criminal. On August 23, 2020, Season 8 kicked off with a 90-minute episode called "I Killed Dirty John ...
Ramón Bojórquez Salcido (born March 6, 1961) is a Mexican convicted spree killer who is currently on death row in California 's San Quentin State Prison. [1] He was convicted for the 1989 murders of six female family members and one male supervisor at his workplace. His victims included his wife and two of his daughters, four-year-old Sofía ...
Proposition 17 of 1972 was a measure enacted by California voters to reintroduce the death penalty in that state. The California Supreme Court had ruled on February 17, 1972, that capital punishment was contrary to the state constitution. Proposition 17 amended the Constitution of California in order to overturn that decision.
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 ]
David Carpenter. Dean Carter. Steven David Catlin. Billy Lee Chadd. Richard Chase. Doug Clark (serial killer) Cynthia Coffman (murderer) Kevin Cooper (prisoner) Michael Cox (serial killer)
Kevin Cooper (born Richard Goodman; January 8, 1958) [ 1 ] is an American man currently imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison 's death row. [ 2 ] Cooper was found guilty of four murders in the Chino Hills area of California in 1983. Cooper's conviction has garnered repeated attention from both Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times [ 3 ] and ...