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The State Supreme Court did not rule out the possibility that the state legislature could enact a constitutional death penalty statute in the future. [ 27 ] In April 2023, Governor Inslee signed SB 5087, which formally abolished capital punishment in Washington state and removed provisions for capital punishment from state law.
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.
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.
On October 11, 2018, Washington state became the 20th state to abolish capital punishment when its state Supreme Court deemed the death penalty unconstitutional on the grounds of racial bias. [71] The state later abolished it through legislation passed in 2023. [72]
As of January 2024, there were nearly 2,200 prisoners facing the death penalty in state cases, according to the center, which states the death row population has been declining over the last 20 years.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday he was suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state, announcing a move that he hopes will enable officials to "join a growing ...
Murder in the first-degree is a class A felony in the state of Washington. [1] If a person is convicted of first-degree murder, they will not receive anything lower than 20 years and more than Natural life imprisonment. [2] The offender can possibly get a charge of aggravated first-degree murder if he commits first-degree murder and have an ...