# List of people executed in California

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. The first 2 executions were by gas inhalation; all subsequent executions were by lethal injection, following a 1996 federal court (9th Circuit) ruling that the use of the gas chamber in California was unconstitutional. A further 2 people sentenced to death in California (Kelvin Malone and Alfredo Prieto) were executed in Missouri and Virginia.

## List of people executed in California since 1976

| No. | Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of execution | Method | County | Victim(s) | Governor |
| 1 | Robert Alton Harris | White | 39 | M | April 21, 1992 | Gas chamber | San Diego | John Mayeski and Michael Baker | Pete Wilson |
| 2 | David Edwin Mason | White | 36 | M | August 24, 1993 | Gas chamber | Alameda | 5 murder victims | Pete Wilson |
| 3 | William George Bonin | White | 49 | M | February 23, 1996 | Lethal injection | Los Angeles and Orange | 14 murder victims | Pete Wilson |
| 4 | Keith Daniel Williams | White | 48 | M | May 3, 1996 | Lethal injection | Merced | Lourdes Meza, Miguel Vargas, and Salvador Vargas | Pete Wilson |
| 5 | Thomas Martin Thompson | White | 43 | M | July 14, 1998 | Lethal injection | Orange | Ginger Fleischli | Pete Wilson |
| 6 | Jaturun Siripongs | Asian | 47 | M | February 9, 1999 | Lethal injection | Orange | Packovan Wattanaporn and Quach Nguyen | Gray Davis |
| 7 | Manuel Pina Babbitt | Black | 50 | M | May 4, 1999 | Lethal injection | Sacramento | Leah Schendel | Gray Davis |
| 8 | Darrell Keith Rich | Native American | 45 | M | March 15, 2000 | Lethal injection | Shasta | 4 murder victims | Gray Davis |
| 9 | Robert Lee Massie | White | 59 | M | March 27, 2001 | Lethal injection | San Francisco | Boris G. Naumoff | Gray Davis |
| 10 | Stephen Wayne Anderson | White | 48 | M | January 29, 2002 | Lethal injection | San Bernardino | Elizabeth Lyman | Gray Davis |
| 11 | Donald Jay Beardslee | White | 61 | M | January 19, 2005 | Lethal injection | San Mateo | Stacey Benjamin and Patty Geddling | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 12 | Stanley Tookie Williams | Black | 51 | M | December 13, 2005 | Lethal injection | Los Angeles | 4 murder victims | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 13 | Clarence Ray Allen | Native American | 76 | M | January 17, 2006 | Lethal injection | Glenn | 4 murder victims | Arnold Schwarzenegger |

## Demographics

Race :
| White | 8 | 63% |
| Black | 2 | 15% |
| Native American | 2 | 15% |
| Asian | 1 | 8% |
| Age |||
| 20–29 | 0 | 0% |
| 30–39 | 2 | 15% |
| 40–49 | 6 | 46% |
| 50–59 | 3 | 23% |
| 60–69 | 1 | 8% |
| 70–79 | 1 | 8% |
| Sex |||
| Male | 13 | 100% |
| Date of execution |||
| 1976–1979 | 0 | 0% |
| 1980–1989 | 0 | 0% |
| 1990–1999 | 7 | 54% |
| 2000–2009 | 6 | 46% |
| 2010–2019 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020–2029 | 0 | 0% |
| Method |||
| Lethal injection | 11 | 85% |
| Gas chamber | 2 | 15% |
| Governor (Party) |||
| Jerry Brown (D) | 0 | 0% |
| George Deukmejian (R) | 0 | 0% |
| Pete Wilson (R) | 5 | 38% |
| Gray Davis (D) | 5 | 38% |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) | 3 | 23% |
| Jerry Brown (D) | 0 | 0% |
| Gavin Newsom (D) | 0 | 0% |
| Total | 13 | 100% |