A Long Road Ends in the Gas Chamber
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Robert Alton Harris, who in 1978 killed two San Diego teenagers, John Mayeski and Michael Baker, then coolly and memorably ate their fast-food burgers, was convicted of two counts of murder and sentenced to die in the gas chamber at San Quentin. In 1992, after spending more than 13 years on death row, he became the first person executed in California in 25 years.
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