Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in the U.S. state of Washington. A total of 109 executions have been carried out in the state and its predecessor territories since 1849. All but two were by hanging. Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal as punishment for a crime often called a capital offence or a capital crime. ... A U.S. state is any one of the fifty states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, along with the District of Columbia, form the United States of America. ... Official language(s) None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 18th 184,824 km² 385 km 580 km 6. ... Categories: Historical stubs | Washington history | U.S. historical regions and territories ... Hanging is a form of execution or a method for suicide. ...

History

The first hangings occurred on January 5, 1849 when Cussas and Quallahworst, two Native Americans, were hanged for murder. 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. January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... An Atsina named Assiniboin Boy Native Americans in the United States (also known as Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are the indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States and their descendants in...

The death penalty was abolished in 1913, then reinstated in 1919. The statute would remain unchanged until 1975, when it was again abolished. A referendum in the same year saw it reinstated for a second time as the mandatory penalty for aggravated murder in the first degree. Supreme Court of the United States rulings in Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U.S. 280 (1976) and Roberts v. Louisiana, 428 U.S. 325 (1976), 431 U.S. 633 (1977), meant that such a law was unconstitutional and the statute was modified to give detailed procedures for imposing the death penalty. A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) or plebiscite is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. ... The Supreme Court of the United States is the supreme court in the United States. ... We dont have an article called Woodson v. ...

This new law was itself found to be unconstitutional by the Washington Supreme Court, as a person who had pled not guilty could be sentenced to death, while someone who pled guilty would receive a maximum sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The current law was passed in 1981 to correct these constitutional defects. The members of the Washington State Supreme Court are: Chief Justice Gerry Alexander, Justice Bobbe Bridge, Justice Tom Chambers, Justice Mary Fairhurst, Justice Charles Johnson, Justice James Johnson, Justice Barbara Madsen, Justice Susan Owens and Justice Richard Sanders. ... Life imprisonment is a term used for a particular kind of sentence of imprisonment. ...

In May 2003, the Washington Death Penalty Assistance Center, an anti-death penalty group, released a report, which showed that of the 10 individuals on death row at the time, nine cases involved a white victim. In the case of African American defendants, all those sentenced to death, were sentenced by all-white juries. 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for May, 2003. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black), is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...

Method

Death Row for males is located at Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, which is also the site of executions. Females are housed at Washington Corrections Center for Women while awaiting execution. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Walla Walla is the both the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, USA, and the countys largest city. ...

Since June 6, 1996 inmates have been able to choose if their execution will be carried out by lethal injection or hanging. If the person makes no decision, the default method is lethal injection. June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Lethal injection is used as a method of capital punishment that involves injecting the condemned with fatal doses of drugs to cause death. ...

According to the Revised Code of Washington § 10.95.180, executions in Washington:^[1]

"…shall be inflicted by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death and until the defendant is dead, or, at the election of the defendant, by hanging by the neck until the defendant is dead."

Capital offenses

The following are considered aggravating circumstances for aggravated first degree murder:^[2]

• murder of an on-duty law enforcement officer, corrections officer, or firefighter
• murder by a prisoner
• contract killing
• murder resulting from the discharge of a firearm from or near a motor vehicle
• murder while committing robbery, rape, burglary, kidnapping, arson
• murder of more than person
• murder of a newsreporter in order to obstruct or hinder
• murder of a person who held a restraining order against the assailant
• murder of a person with whom the murderer had a "family or household members"
• murder in order to obtain or maintain membership or to advance their position in the hierarchy of an organization, association, or identifiable group

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Executions since 1976

A total of four individuals have been executed by the state of Washington since 1976. All were convicted of murder.

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See also

• Capital punishment in the United States
• Chief Leschi

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Notes

1. ^ RCW 10.95.180
2. ^ RCW 10.95.030

References

• History of the Death Penalty in Washington
• Race and the Death Penalty