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| Jun.13 |
San Quentin |
Price Tag Soars For New Death Row The rebuilding project is a long overdue and way over budget; the cells are slated to cost more than some Bay Area single-family homes
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| Sep.12 |
Martinez |
Jury chooses death for cop killer Jurors deliberated for less than a day before recommending that Alexander Hamilton be executed for the 2005 murder of Pittsburg police offic...
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| Aug.3 |
San Leandro |
Officer Killer Sentenced To Death
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| Jun.11 |
Oakland |
Jury Recommends Death For Cop Killer
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DA Drops DeAnza Assault Case
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| Apr.14 |
San Quentin |
Calif. Building New Death Chamber Schwarzenegger's administration quietly began building an elaborate new death chamber at State Prison to past muster with a federal judge
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| Dec.15 |
Concord |
'Trailside Killer' Sentenced To Death Robert Ward Frazier, 42, was sentenced for raping, sodomizing and murdering Kathleen Aiello-Loreck, a 49-year-old mother of 3
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| Feb.21 |
San Quentin |
Morales execution hold off  The state has cancelled the execution of a killer over ethical issues surrounding the lethal injection method
| Prison failed twice within 24 hours to find anesthesiologists to administer the drugs to Michael Morales.
He was convicted of the murder and rape of a 17-year-old girl in 1981.
Morales is now back on Death Row while the state reviews the policy on how to carry out lethal injections.
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San Quentin |
Delays Hamper Morales Execution
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| Jan.18 |
San Quentin |
Morales Faces Feb. 21 Execution Stockton man raped and killed a 17-year-old girl whose body was found beaten and stabbed in 25 years ago
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| Jan.17 |
San Quentin |
State Executes Allen| California's oldest condemned inmate Clarence Ray Allen needed an extra dose of a lethal chemical | | |
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| Jan.15 |
San Francisco |
Appeals court denies stay to Allen 75-year-old Clarence Ray Allen argued it would be unconstitutional to execute a disabled elderly prisoner
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| Dec.13 |
San Quentin |
Nobel nominated gang leader executed | Convicted killer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams executed at the state prison. Stanley Tookie Williams spent more than 2 decades on death row for the 1979 robbery murders of four people in Los Angeles. Williams appeared to grow impatient as p... | |
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| Dec.12 |
San Quentin |
Condemned awaiting last-minute appeal
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| Oct.24 |
San Quentin |
Williams gets execution date
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Mistrial in Susan Polk Murder Trial
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| Mar.16 |
Redwood City |
 Judge Sentences Peterson To Death| Scott remained impassive for the hearing, despite the emotional words from the family of his wife | |
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| Mar.11 |
Concord |
Brothers sentenced to death for 5 murder Justin Helzer and Glenn Taylor Helzer, convicted of a mass murder plot in Concord, have been sentenced to death
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Peterson Sentencing Postponed
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| Feb.15 |
San Leandro |
'Sausage king' gets death penalty Sausage-plant owner was sentenced today to the death penalty for murdering 3 inspectors at his plant in 2000
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| Jan.19 |
San Quentin |
Beardslee executed Donald Beardslee, 61, was convicted of killing two women in 1981. Gov. Schwarzenegger rejected clemency
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| Dec.17 |
Martinez |
Jury: death for quintuple murderer A jury recommended the death penalty for Helzer, 34, who guilty to killing the daughter of guitarist Bishop and 4 other
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| Dec.14 |
Oakland |
Death Penalty for 'Sausage King' An Alameda County Superior Court jury recommended the death penalty for Stuart Alexander for killing 3 inspectors
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Redwood City |
Jury Recommends Death for Peterson | The jurors deliberated for 12 hours before deciding that he should die for killing his pregnant wife and unborn son. The jury deliberated for 12 hours before reaching its recommendation. A crowd outside the court ... | |
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Ex-officer acquitted in Fajitagate scandal
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Peterson convicted of murder
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| May.25 |
SF City Hall |
Sups Back DA's Death Penalty Decision The Board passed a resolution backing the decision not to pursue the death penalty for an accused cop-killer
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| Feb.9 |
San Quentin |
Execution delayed A federal appeals court agreed to reconsider the case of death row inmate Kevin Cooper
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| Jan.31 |
Antioch |
Death Sentence for Murder of Girl, 5
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| Dec.12 |
San Jose |
Yosemite killer Stayner sentenced to die A former motel handyman was ordered to die in state prison for murdering 3 park tourists in a 1999
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| Oct.9 |
San Jose |
Jury recommends death for Yosemite killer Jury is rejecting defense pleas to show mercy because of a traumatic childhood, mental illness and an inability to control urges
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| Sep.25 |
Oakland |
Death sentence for torture and murder
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| Jan.29 |
San Quentin |
Stephen Anderson Executed Was sentenced to death for killing an 81-year-old
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| Jan.25 |
Lafayette |
Killer gets death sentence
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| Mar.27 |
San Quentin |
Killer Executed Robert Massie executed after 20 years on death row
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| Feb.6 |
San Quentin |
Killer to be executed
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City official, 4 execs indicted
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| Mar.15 |
San Quentin |
Darrell Keith Rich executed Rich sexually assaulted and killed several young women in 1978 and became known as the 'Hilltop Rapist'
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