A death row inmate convicted of killing an Oakland secretary more than 40 years ago in a bid to keep her from testifying at his rape trial died on Tuesday,
He had been convicted of fatally shooting Lugassy outside her Lake Merritt studio apartment — a killing that came as Lugassy, a legal secretary at the time, planned to testify that Heishman had raped her months earlier, various news outlets reported at the time.
In 1988, the California Supreme Court upheld his death sentence in a 6-1 ruling, rejecting concerns that his trial judge failed to state his reasons for upholding the jury’s finding that he be executed, as was required by law, the L.A. Times reported. Gov. Gavin Newsom placed a moratorium on executions in the state in 2019, about 13 years after California last executed someone on death row. The governor has since announced plans to completely dismantle death row at San Quentin — meaning that inmates would be transferred to other prisons across the state with no expectation that they would face execution anytime in the near future.
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