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  2. Capital punishment in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment is one of two possible penalties for aggravated murder in the U.S. state of Oregon, with it being required by the Constitution of Oregon. [1]In November 2011, Governor John Kitzhaber announced a moratorium on executions in Oregon, canceling a planned execution and ordering a review of the death penalty system in the state. [2]

  3. Harry Charles Moore - Wikipedia

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    Oregon Harry Charles Moore (May 5, 1941 – May 16, 1997) [ 1 ] was an American convicted murderer who was executed in Oregon for the 1992 murders of Thomas Lauri and Barbara Cunningham. He was the second person executed by the state of Oregon since 1978 and remains the state's most recent execution.

  4. List of most recent executions by jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Maintain the death penalty in both law and practice C: ... Oregon: 16 May 1997 [101] ... State Last execution date

  5. The US has executed 23 men this year. A look at the state of ...

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    Six states still consider the death penalty legal but have put executions on hold for various reasons, like the shaky reliability of execution drugs: Arizona, California, Oregon, Ohio ...

  6. Oregon governor commutes all 17 of state's death sentences - AOL

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    The Oregon Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1981 and Oregon voters reinstated it in 1984, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. A list of inmates with death sentences ...

  7. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown commutes sentences of 17 people on ...

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    Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced plans Tuesday to commute the sentences of the 17 people on Oregon’s death row to life imprisonment without the possibility.

  8. Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Prior, Oregon had an ongoing official moratorium set by prior governor John Kitzhaber in 2011 and had not carried out any executions since that of Harry Charles Moore in 1997; furthermore, in 2019, the Oregon State Senate amended the state's death penalty statutes to significantly reduce the number of crimes that warranted the death penalty ...

  9. Crime in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Oregon voters amended the Constitution in 1914 to repeal the death penalty, with 50.04% of the vote. The repeal was an initiative of Governor Oswald West. [4] The death penalty was restored, again by constitutional amendment, in 1920. [3] Initially, all executions were performed by hanging; lethal gas was adopted as the method after 1931. [3]