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February 12, 2014

Washington State Freezes Death Penalty 
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Washington state has become the latest in the U.S. to suspend the death
penalty. Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee announced the move.

Gov. Jay Inslee: "A system that does not deter crime, costs citizens
millions of dollars more than life imprisonment without parole, is
uncertain in its application, and exposes families to multiple decades
of uncertainty as to the result of the judicial decision, is not right.
You could say it's not moral, but I can say it's not right."

Washington state is the 18th state to halt capital punishment, and the
sixth in as many years. Nine prisoners will be moved off of death row as
a result.

 

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