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 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 ruling that the use of the gas chamber in California was unconstitutional.
| # | Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of Execution | Method of Execution | Victim | Governor |
| 1 | Robert Alton Harris | White | 39 | M | April 21, 1992 | Gas chamber | John Mayeski and Michael Baker | Pete Wilson |
| 2 | David Edwin Mason | White | 36 | M | August 24, 1993 | Gas chamber | Joan Picard, Arthur Jennings, Boyd Johnson, Antionette Brown, and Dorothy Land | Pete Wilson |
| 3 | William George Bonin | White | 49 | M | February 23, 1996 | Lethal injection | Marcus Grabs, Donald Hyden, David Murillo, Dennis Frank Fox, Charles Miranda, James McCabe, Ronald Gatlin, Harry Todd Turner, Russell Rugh, Glenn Barker, Steven Wood, Darin Lee Kendrick, Lawrence Sharp, and Steven Jay Wells | Pete Wilson |
| 4 | Keith Daniel Williams | White | 48 | M | May 3, 1996 | Lethal injection | Lourdes Meza, Miguel Vargas, and Salvador Vargas | Pete Wilson |
| 5 | Thomas Martin Thompson | White | 43 | M | July 14, 1998 | Lethal injection | Ginger Fleischli | Pete Wilson |
| 6 | Jaturun Siripongs | Asian | 43 | M | February 9, 1999 | Lethal injection | Packovan Wattanporn and Quach Nguyen | Gray Davis |
| 7 | Manuel Pina Babbitt | Black | 50 | M | May 4, 1999 | Lethal injection | Leah Schendel | Gray Davis |
| 8 | Darrell Keith Rich | Native American | 45 | M | March 15, 2000 | Lethal injection | Annette Fay Edwards, Patricia Ann Moore, Linda Diane Slavik, and Annette Lynn Selix | Gray Davis |
| 9 | Robert Lee Massie | White | 59 | M | March 27, 2001 | Lethal injection | Boris G. Naumoff | Gray Davis |
| 10 | Stephen Wayne Anderson | White | 48 | M | January 29, 2002 | Lethal injection | Elizabeth Lyman | Gray Davis |
| 11 | Donald Jay Beardslee | White | 61 | M | January 19, 2005 | Lethal injection | Stacey Benjamin and Patty Geddling | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 12 | Stanley Tookie Williams | Black | 51 | M | December 13, 2005 | Lethal injection | Albert Owens, Yen-Yi Yang, Tsai-Shai Lin, and Yee-Chen Lin | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 13 | Clarence Ray Allen | Native American | 76 | M | January 17, 2006 | Lethal injection | Bryon Schletewitz, Josephine Rocha, and Douglas White | Arnold Schwarzenegger |