Reprieve for county death row inmates

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation records identify 15 death-row inmates sentenced in Ventura County—14 men and one woman. They are: • Michael Angelo Morales — Convicted of raping and murdering 17-year-old Terri Winchell in San Joaquin County in 1981. His trial was transferred to Ventura County, where he was sentenced to death in 1983. The California Supreme Court affirmed the judgment in 1989. • Tracy Dearl Cain — Convicted of murdering William and Modena Galloway in Oxnard in 1986. Sentenced to death in 1988. The California Supreme Court affirmed the judgment in 1995. • Curtis Lynn Fauber — Convicted of murdering Thomas Urell during a robbery and burglary in Oxnard in 1986. Sentenced to death in 1988. The California Supreme Court affirmed the judgment in 1992. • Gregory Scott Smith — Convicted of murdering 8-year-old Paul Bailly in 1990.

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