In 1992, Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years when he was put to death in the gas chamber for the 1978 murder of two teen-age boys.

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Michael Ross, a convicted serial killer, was put to death by lethal injection in 2005 after he voluntarily gave up his appeals.

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The first time he watched someone put to death a murderer, whose throat was slit by a member of his victim's family the sight made him sick.

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