Washington state ends ‘racially biased’ death penalty

By: Staff Report October 12, 2018

Washington's Supreme Court unanimously struck down the state's death penalty Thursday as arbitrary and racially biased, making it the 20th state to do away with capital punishment. Execution was already extremely rare in Washington, with five prisoners put to death in recent decades and a governor-imposed moratorium blocking its use since 2014. But the court's opinion eliminated ...

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Washington state ends ‘racially biased’ death penalty

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