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- 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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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]
United States: Oldest death row inmate at California's San Quentin State Prison, a member of the Mono nation sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of a 22-year-old woman. Retried twice and sentenced to death on both occasions. [169]
NameSentence StartSentence EndSentence DurationWalter H. Bourque Jr.December 11, 1955ongoing68 years, 322 daysSeptember 5, 1911May 7, 198068 years, 245 daysJohn PhillipsJuly 17, 1952March 9, 202168 years, 236 daysDecember 18, 1953February 11, 202167 years, 54 daysJun 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 13, 2019 · Below are the men and women currently on death row. Click on the photos to learn more about the crimes that put them there.
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.
Mar 13, 2019 · As of March 2019, there are 737 inmates on death row in California. Seventy-nine condemned inmates have died of natural causes since 1978, when the state reinstated capital punishment after...
Prisoners under sentence of death on December 31, 2021 had been on death row for an average of 20.2 years (table 10). Fifteen states and the BOP reported 45 prisoners whose convictions or sentences were vacated or overturned during 2021 (table 11). Prisoners executed during 2021 had been on death row for an average of 19.4 years (table 12).