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Date of Execution Method Crime Governor John Elfus January 15, 1884 Hanging murder of Dan Haggerty [1] Jochin Henry Timmerman April 6, 1888 murder of William Sterling [2] Edward Gallagher July 11, 1890 murder of Lewis Marr [3] Robert Thompson Day June 3, 1892 murder of Thomas Beebe [4] Elisha P. Ferry: Charles Brooks September 6, 1892
In 1996, Washington legislators made lethal injection the state's default method of execution. In 2018, the Washington Supreme Court declared the state's death penalty was unconstitutional, effectively abolishing capital punishment in the state and likely making Campbell the last person to be executed by hanging in the state. [18]
Billy Bailey (January 1947 – January 25, 1996) was a convicted murderer who was hanged in Delaware in 1996. He became the third person to be hanged in the United States since 1965 (the previous two were Charles Rodman Campbell and Westley Allan Dodd, both in Washington), and the first person hanged in Delaware in 50 years.
Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla. Dodd was executed at 12:05 a.m. on January 5, 1993, at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. He was pronounced dead by the prison doctor and his body was transported to Seattle for autopsy. King County Medical Examiner Donald Reay found that Dodd had died quickly, within two to three minutes ...
Executions are rarely carried out in the state — the most executions in one year was five in 1939, and there was an average of less than one hanging per year between 1849 and 1963. The death penalty was abolished in 1913 and reinstated in 1919.
Authorities have identified the man who assaulted and killed a Washington woman 36 years ago, and they used DNA to solve the case. Fishermen found a body on Aug. 28, 1988, according to the Pierce ...
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