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Mitchell Edward Rupe (1955 – February 7, 2006) was a convicted murderer who achieved notoriety when his death sentence was overturned after a judge determined that Rupe was too obese to hang. On the morning of September 17, 1981, Rupe fatally shot bank tellers Candace Hemmig and Twila Capron during a robbery of Tumwater State Bank in Olympia ...
Washington State Penitentiary ... It was the site of Washington State's death row and where ... Mitchell Rupe was convicted in the September 1981 murders of two bank ...
April 13, 1906 (WADOC lists date as May 13, 1906 while newspaper reports death as April 13) murder of Adolph Miller [24] A.A. Armstrong June 8, 1906 murder of Robert Patton [25] Fred Miller March 22, 1907 murder of Fred Dierk [26] Jose Nicolos (WADOC lists name as Joe Niculas) April 16, 1909 murder of George Brown and unnamed four-year-old [27 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over ...
The Supreme Court in 2017 ruled for a Black death row inmate who was sentenced after an expert witness testified he was statistically more likely to act violently in the future because of his race ...
The longest sitting death row inmate, Fred Singleton, is also the oldest at age 80. He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a ...
People executed by Washington (state) (4 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Prisoners sentenced to death by Washington (state)" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
As of 2017, the Washington State Department of Corrections listed eight men on death row. [12] The first hangings occurred on January 5, 1849, when Cussas and Quallahworst, two Native Americans, were hanged for murder. Executions are rarely carried out in the state — the most executions in one year was five in 1939, and there was an average ...