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    Robert Alton Harris (January 15, 1953 – April 21, 1992) was an American car thief, burglar, kidnapper and murderer who was executed at San Quentin State...
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  • There were no further executions in California until 1992, when Robert Alton Harris was gassed. The gas chamber was ruled unconstitutional in California...
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  • murderer Robert Alton Harris in 1992. The documentary features interviews of eleven witnesses to Harris's execution, including members of Harris's victims'...
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  • admiral Robert B. Harris (1922–2014), American sailboat designer Robert Alton Harris (1953–1992), American murderer Robert S. Harris (architect), American...
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    state carried out its first execution since 1967 by putting to death Robert Alton Harris for the murders of two teenage boys in San Diego. A series of four...
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    would be executed by lethal injection. Following the execution of Robert Alton Harris in 1992, a federal court declared that "execution by lethal gas under...
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    song at San Quentin at the 1992 vigil protesting the execution of Robert Alton Harris, the first man to be executed in California after the death penalty...
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    Sacramento police officer, executed by gas chamber on April 12, 1967. Robert Alton Harris: convicted of murdering two boys after serving time for manslaughter...
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  • death sentences were carried out in the state until 1992. That year, Robert Alton Harris was executed in the gas chamber. In a 1978 concurring opinion, Justice...
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  • Archived from the original on 2016-03-02. Retrieved 2018-08-12. Fierro, Ruiz, Harris v. Gomez, 77 F.3d 301 (U.S. 9th Circuit 1996). "Inmates Executed 1978 to...
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