U.S. reaches 1,600 executions since death penalty was reinstated
Alan Eugene Miller’s execution was the fifth in the last week, drawing national scrutiny to convictions and execution ...
US Reaches Executions Milestone Amid Declining Support for Death Penalty
"All the data indicates that the American public is increasingly uncomfortable with use of the death penalty, yet elected ...
'Better off without it': Washington closes execution chamber at state penitentiary
Fourteen years after the last death sentence was carried out in Washington, the execution chamber at the state penitentiary ...
WA death penalty chamber officially closes, ending tumultuous history
A ceremony will cap a history marked by legal tussles, a secret training, resignations, a deal with a serial killer and raw ...
World’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japanese retrial
In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 ...
Walla Walla Union Bulletin11d
WA death penalty chamber to officially close, ending tumultuous history
Jay Inslee, who ushered in its disuse with a 2014 moratorium on the death penalty. Not until last year, however, did the ...
MyNorthwest.com9d
Washington’s death penalty chamber to be preserved for history
A room that hosted decades of death is officially closing. Washington's death chamber is shuttering its heavy metal door.
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US state executes man despite conviction doubts
Two men on death row in the United States were executed Tuesday, including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained ...
As another U.S. state closes its execution chamber, Trump muses about expanding use of death penalty
Washington state is closing its death chamber this week, but South Carolina is scheduled to carry out its first execution ...
Alabama executes second death row inmate by nitrogen hypoxia
Alabama conducted the United States' second execution with the use of nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, finally killing Alan ...
'Barbaric, inequitable, unjust': Wisconsin was the first state to abolish the death penalty for all crimes after just one execution
The public reaction to McCaffrey's execution contributed to the success of a movement to end the death penalty in Wisconsin ...