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| CA Execution Debate Could Start Over |
| By modbee.com |
| Published: 06/07/2010 |
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SACRAMENTO -- When Caryl Chessman died in California's gas chamber 50 years ago -- probably the state's most notorious execution -- 18 inmates were left on death row. Today, there are 702. The last execution at San Quentin State Prison was that of Clarence Ray Allen on Jan. 17, 2006, the 13th in California since 1978. Since that day, at least 205 convicts have been executed in other states, 24 death row inmates at San Quentin have died from natural causes or suicide, and 83 people have been sentenced to death in California courts. But no one has been executed in California since Allen, including Modesto's Scott Peterson, who has been on death row for five years since being convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci. That's largely because of two court challenges over the state's lethal injection methods and its attempt to short-circuit the procedure for revising those methods. Read More. |
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