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  2. California State Lottery - Wikipedia

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    The California State Lottery began in October 1985 after voters authorized it in Proposition 37, the California State Lottery Act of 1984. [1] It offers a range of games including number draws, scratchcards and a mock horse race. The earnings provide supplementary funding for public education.

  3. John A. Brown Jr. - Wikipedia

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    John A. Brown Jr. John Ashley Brown Jr. (c.1962/1963 [1] – April 24, 1997) was an American from New Orleans who was convicted of first-degree murder and incarcerated on death row in Louisiana State Penitentiary for 12 years. He was one of six inmates featured in the 1998 documentary entitled The Farm: Angola, USA.

  4. Morris Solomon Jr. - Wikipedia

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    United States. State (s) California. Date apprehended. April 22, 1987. Imprisoned at. San Quentin State Prison. Morris Solomon Jr. (born March 15, 1944 [1] ), known as The Sacramento Slayer, is an American convicted serial killer on death row in San Quentin, California for the murders of six women. [2]

  5. John Steinbeck - Wikipedia

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    John Ernst Steinbeck (/ ˈ s t aɪ n b ɛ k / STYNE-bek; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer.He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception".

  6. Murders of Jan Pawel and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak - Wikipedia

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    Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside County, California, USA. On October 15, 2008, United States Marine Corps Sergeant Jan Paweł Pietrzak (March 13, 1984 – October 15, 2008) and his wife Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak (February 16, 1982 – October 15, 2008) were tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered by four American Marines.

  7. List of people executed in the United States in 2019 - Wikipedia

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    Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved December 7, 2019. Hall, previously known as Leroy Hall Jr., was sentenced to death in 1992 for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend Traci Crozier in Chattanooga. Hall threw a burning 2-gallon jug of gas at her while she was sitting in her car. ^ Timms, Mariah (November 16, 2019).

  8. John Spenkelink - Wikipedia

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    Penalty. Death by electric chair (December 20, 1973) John Arthur Spenkelink (March 29, 1949 – May 25, 1979) was an American convicted murderer. He was executed in 1979, the first convicted criminal to be executed in Florida after capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, and the second (after Gary Gilmore) in the United States.

  9. Jack Alderman - Wikipedia

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    Jack Alderman was born on May 29, 1951, in Garden City, Georgia . On June 14, 1975, he was convicted for his part in the killing of his wife, Barbara Jean Alderman ( née Blase ), and was subsequently sentenced to death by the Superior Court of Chatham County, Georgia. His wife was beaten to death with a crescent wrench and choked before being ...