Stanley Williams was given clemency instead of being executed.
Stanley Williams . In 1979 , he was convicted of murdering four people -- three of the victims were an elderly Taiwanese couple and their daughter , and the fourth victim was a 7-Eleven employee in a separate occasion -- and sentenced to death . On December 13 , 2005 , Williams was executed by lethal injection after clemency and a four-week stay of execution were both rejected by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger , amid debate over the death penalty . Williams was the second inmate in California to be executed in 2005 .