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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.
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.
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
NameDescription Of CrimeTime On Death RowTortured and murdered his girlfriend's ...6 years, 333 daysMurder of 9-year-old Autumn Wallace.32 years, 109 daysKidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old ...19 years, 168 daysMurdered three men during an attempted ...34 years, 336 daysMar 18, 2022 · Douglas Ray Stankewitz, 64, Monache, believed to be the longest-serving inmate on San Quentin Prison's Death Row, continues to fight his conviction in the 1978 slaying of 21-year-old Theresa Graybeal. He originally received the death penalty but his sentence was later reduced to life in prison.
Mar 13, 2019 · Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to impose a moratorium on the death penalty in California. These are the men and women currently on death row.
Apr 4, 2024 · California is shutting down death row at San Quentin. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) By the end of summer, they will be gone and death row will no longer exist. No one has been executed in...
May 16, 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.