Outgoing Oregon governor Kate Brown has commuted all seventeen death sentences pending in the state.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Calling the death penalty immoral, Governor Kate Brown commuted the death sentences of17 inmates to life in prisonwithout the possibility of parole.
Brown, 62, announced the commutations will take effect Wednesday, December 14 in a full-throated condemnation and repudiation of the death penalty.
“Since taking office in 2015, I have continued Oregon’s moratorium on executions because the death penalty is both dysfunctional and immoral. Today I am commuting Oregon’s death row so that we will no longer have anyone serving a sentence of death and facing execution in this state. This is a value that many Oregonians share,” she said in a statement.
The state, she said, “should not be in the business of executing people” even though she noted a “terrible crime” led to a conviction and…
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