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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]
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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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 ...
Annual executions have steadily declined since peaking at 98 in 1999. States and the federal government carried out 11 executions this year, the fewest since 1988, as support for the death penalty ...
Westley Allan Dodd was born in Toppenish, Washington, on July 3, 1961, the oldest of three children to James and Carol Dodd. [1] Dodd claimed he was never abused or neglected as a child, [2] though he did state that the words "I love you" were never said to him as he grew up and that he could not remember saying them in return. [3]