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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]
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.
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Fishermen found a body on Aug. 28, 1988, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. She was found in the Puyallup River near Sumner, authorities said in a news release on Dec. 1.
The body of an Oregon woman found this month outside an abandoned barn in Washington state appears to have been “moved” there and her death is now being investigated as a homicide, authorities ...
Hanging was one method of execution in Colonial America. According to the Espy file, Daniel Frank was hanged in 1623 for cattle theft in the Jamestown colony. [4] [5] John Billington is thought to be one of the first men to be hanged in New England; Billington was convicted of murder in September 1630 after he shot and killed John Newcomen.