Deaths in Custody
Executed

Manuel Babbitt

50 years old · died May 4, 1999 · San Quentin State Prison, Marin County, California

Manuel Babbitt, 50, was held at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California, where the state executed him by lethal injection on May 4, 1999. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's record lists the cause of death as execution by lethal injection and the manner as homicide. Babbitt was a man with a family, work and friends, but the record offers nothing about them.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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