The Washington Department of Corrections plans to keep the execution chamber intact for now.
Fourteen years after the last execution was carried out in Washington , the execution chamber at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla was closed Gov. Jay Inslee , who issued a moratorium on the death penalty ten years ago, said shuttering the chamber was the ‘final closure’ of the controversial issue in Washington state law.
The three clocks in the execution chamber are all set to 12:56, the time when the last execution was carried out on Cal Coburn Brown in September of 2010.Former King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg, whose office prosecuted Brown for the murder, observed the execution alongside Washa’s family.
“My conclusion is ‘it’s just not worth it. We’re better off without it,” he said. “People fantasize about the death penalty they wish we had in this state, not the one we actually had.”
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