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Time on death row: 8 years
At the behest of the Dragon Family gang, Aguirre fired into a car he was told held rival gang members. The victims instead were family members who had gone out for fish tacos. The youngest, 13, bled to death.

Time on death row: 37 years, 2 months
Alcala is serial killer whose total victim count is unknown. He worked as a photographer and had been a “Dating Game” contestant. He was convicted three times for the 1979 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe. The first two convictions were overturned. He also strangled to death four Los Angeles area women and in 2013 confessed to killing two women in New York during the 1970s. He was charged in September 2016 for an eighth murder in Wyoming.

Time on death row: 17 years, 1 month
Alvarez shook a 5-month-old boy to death and two years later fatally beat a 4-year-old child.

Time on death row: 31 years, 1 month
Ashmus, who worked at a carnival, in 1984 raped and suffocated a 7-year-old girl, stuffing cellophane bags and her own shorts down her throat.

Time on death row: 8 years, 7 months
Baker killed a 60-year-old woman who had taken him in after she met him at Alcoholics Anonymous. During trial he was accused of raping women he had met at recovery groups. He interrupted his trial by screaming and smearing his face in his own feces.

Time on death row: 15 years, 8 months
Barrera fatally beat his children, ages 2 and 5, and buried them in a shallow grave in the Angeles National Forest.

Time on death row: 21 years, 10 months
Beames repeatedly beat his girlfriend's 15-month-old toddler, striking her so hard that her liver split and she bled to death. The child previously suffered a broken leg, multiple broken ribs, burns, bruising and evidence she had been hung by the neck.

Time on death row: 24 years, 10 months
Cult leader Gerald Cruz used sleep deprivation and occult beliefs to manipulate followers into murdering four people in attacks with baseball bats and knives. Beck and Ricky Vieira were condemned to death while two others received life sentences.

Time on death row: 23 years, 5 months
Bell stabbed to death the 11-year-old son of the woman he was living with so he could steal her television and sell it for money to buy crack cocaine.

Time on death row: 24 years, 2 months
Benavides raped, sodomized and fatally injured the 21-month-old toddler he was babysitting.

Time on death row: 9 years, 11 months
Brothers, a former Bakersfield school principal, killed his wife, three children and mother-in-law so that he could start a new life without supporting them.

Time on death row: 25 years, 3 months
Brown shot a woman driving a customized red truck in order to steal the vehicle's specialty tire rims.

Time on death row: 19 years, 3 months
On Mother's Day, Carasi took his mother and his former girlfriend out to dinner at Universal Studios, then stabbed them to death in the parking garage in front of his 2-year-old son. His girlfriend at the time of the killings participated in the stabbings but was not condemned.

Time on death row: 15 years, 4 months
The wife of a wealthy, allegedly unfaithful doctor, Caro shot three of her four young sons to death and then shot herself in the head but survived.

Time on death row: 31 years, 3 months
Cox was a street gang member on parole when he and accomplices sought to carry out a contract killing. The killers went to the wrong address and executed NFL football player Kermit Alexander's mother, sister and two nephews. On death row, Cox stabbed another condemned inmate, and he was part of a 2000 escape attempt. Alexander is one of the most prominent voices behind Proposition 66, which would speed the appeals process and allow faster executions.