<P> This included chief justice Rose Bird, who was removed by a margin of 67 to 33 percent . She reviewed a total of 64 capital cases appealed to the court, in each instance issuing a decision overturning the death penalty that had been imposed at trial . She was joined in her decision to overturn by at least three other members of the court in 61 of those cases . This led Bird's critics to claim that she was substituting her own opinions and ideas for the laws and precedents upon which judicial decisions are supposed to be made . </P> <P> In April 21, 1992 the state carried out his 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 stays of execution issued by the 9th circuit appeal court delayed the execution, causing the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to vacate the stays and prohibit all other federal courts from any further intervention, ruling that the lower court decisions caused "abusive delays" and were "attempts to manipulate the judicial process". </P> <P> The latest change of method was introduced in January 1993, when lethal injection was offered as a choice for people sentenced to death . David Mason however chose to die from lethal gas in August 1993, just seven months after lethal injection was introduced . This was replaced with lethal injection as the standard method in 1994 . William Bonin was the first person to be executed by these new laws on February 23, 1996 . Thirteen people have been executed in California since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, though 56 other people have died on death row from other causes (14 of them from suicide) as of October 25, 2007 . </P> <P> During the term of Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor, the state carried out two prominent executions in less than five weeks, with Stanley Tookie Williams in December 2005 and Clarence Ray Allen in January 2006 . </P>

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