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  1. Mar 13, 2019 · These are the 737 inmates on California's death row. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to impose a moratorium on the death penalty in California. The order will prevent the state from ...

  2. Jun 16, 2024 · On the morning of the visit by EL PAÍS, the man who has been on death row in California the longest — a 66-year-old Native American named Douglas “Chief” Stankewitz — summed up the paradox. He said through the bars of his cage, while chatting with his friend Colleen Hicks: “I’m worried about how the other inmates are going to receive us.

  3. Jun 2, 2023 · When a California correctional officer took this photo for Michael Whisenhunt in 2001, the inmate still harbored visible wounds from a prison yard fight that had to be broken up with non-lethal force. Whisenhunt described San Quentin State Prison’s death row as a “madhouse.” (Photo courtesy of Michael Whisenhunt)

  4. Nov 11, 2009 · When death penalty means a better life. By Carol J. Williams. Nov. 11, 2009 12 AM PT. White supremacist gang hit man Billy Joe Johnson got what he asked for from the Orange County jury that ...

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  5. May 26, 2023 · He described being haunted by the possibility that, of the 737 inmates waiting on death row in 2019, many may actually be innocent. In fact, citing statistics from a study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Newsom said that “if we move forward executing 737 people in California, we will have executed more than 30 people that are innocent.”

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  6. Mar 18, 2022 · Douglas Ray Stankewitz is California’s longest-serving death-row prisoner. The 63-year-old Monache and Cherokee Indian from the Big Sandy Rancheria has spent 43 years in San Quentin State Prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit: the Feb. 8, 1978 carjacking and murder of 21-year-old Theresa Graybeal in Fresno, California.

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