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Only five people have been executed by the state of Washington since the death penalty statute was reformed following the 1976 Supreme Court decisions. Capital punishment was declared unconstitutional by the Washington Supreme Court in 2018.
From 1904 to 2010, 78 people were executed by the state; the last was Cal Coburn Brown on September 10, 2010. [1] In April 2023, Governor Jay Inslee signed SB5087 which formally abolished capital punishment in Washington State and removed provisions for capital punishment from state law. [2] [1]
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Four days later on Sept. 24, two men were executed within an hour of each other: Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri at 6:10 p.m. CT even though the prosecutors in the case and the victim ...
There have been only 16 since 1977 — compared with more than 1,500 state executions — and 13 of them took place between July 2020 and January 2021 in the waning days of the Republican Trump ...
Washington State Penitentiary (also called the Walla Walla State Penitentiary) is a Washington State Department of Corrections men's prison located in Walla Walla, Washington. With an operating capacity of 2,200, it is the largest prison in the state and is surrounded by wheat fields. It opened in 1886, three years before statehood.
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Rainey Bethea (1936) last public execution in the United States; Jacques Chausson (1661) attempted homosexual rape of a young nobleman; Caryl Chessman (1960) Richard Cornish (1625) homosexual rape of an endentured servant; Carlo Fantom (1643) Thomas Knapton (1833) José Gregorio Liendo (1973) Martinsville Seven (1951) group of seven men ...