.GovInslee signed a bill removing state laws that the Washington state Supreme Court determined are invalid or unconstitutional, effectively abolishing the death penalty. “It's official. The death penalty is no longer in state law,' Inslee tweeted.
to end the death penalty by requiring life in prison with the possibility of parole or release as an alternative.State v. GregoryChief Justice Mary Fairhurst wrote it was “now apparent that Washington’s death penalty is administered in an arbitrary and racially biased manner,” declaring the practice unconstitutional.
Cal Coburn Brown was the last person executed in Washington. Brown was found guilty of the rape and murder of Holly Washa in 1997. He was one of two people executed by the state in this century, James Homer Elledge being the former, for murdering Eloise Jane Fitzner in 1998. Both were executed through lethal injection.
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