when was the death penalty reinstated in california
1977
title: Capital punishment in California text: Capital punishment in California Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of California. It carried out 709 executions from 1778 to the 1972 California Supreme Court decision in "People v. Anderson" that struck down the state capital punishment statute. California voters reinstated the death penalty a few months later, with Proposition 17 legalizing the death penalty in the state constitution and ending the "Anderson" ruling. Since that ruling, there have been just 13 executions, yet hundreds of inmates have been sentenced. The last execution that took place in California was in 2006. , official California Department of title: Capital punishment in California text: modified to reinstate capital punishment under an initiative called Proposition 17. In 1973 a new statute was subsequently enacted, making the death penalty mandatory for a number of crimes including first degree murder in specific instances, kidnapping where a person dies, train wrecking where a person dies, treason against the state, and assault by a life prisoner if the victim dies within a year. The debate over capital punishment played out in a somewhat similar fashion on the national level. On June 29, 1972, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in "Furman v. Georgia", holding all capital punishment title: Capital punishment in California text: lethal injection, following a 1996 federal court (9th Circuit) ruling that the use of the gas chamber in California was unconstitutional. Capital punishment in California Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of California. It carried out 709 executions from 1778 to the 1972 California Supreme Court decision in "People v. Anderson" that struck down the state capital punishment statute. California voters reinstated the death penalty a few months later, with Proposition 17 legalizing the death penalty in the state constitution and ending the "Anderson" ruling. Since that ruling, there have been just 13 executions, yet hundreds title: Capital punishment in California text: choice, made no selection, so was executed by the lethal gas default in August 1993. Following a legal challenge and Ninth Circuit appeal court decision in 1996, lethal gas was suspended, with lethal injection becoming the only method. Serial killer William Bonin was the first person to be executed under these new laws, on February 23, 1996. Thirteen people have been executed in California since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, though 119 other people have died on death row from other causes (25 of them from suicide) as of December 4, 2018. During the term of Arnold Schwarzenegger title: Human rights in the United States text: the death penalty at the states' discretion constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This was preceded with the Supreme Court of California's ruling in "California v. Anderson" 64 Cal.2d 633, 414 P.2d 366 (Cal. 1972), which classified capital punishment as cruel and unusual and outlawed the use of capital punishment in California (however, this was reversed the same year through a ballot initiative, Proposition 17). It was reinstated nationally in 1976 after the US Supreme Court rulings Gregg v. Georgia, , "Jurek v. Texas", , and Proffitt v. Florida, .