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OREGON (USA): GOVERNOR KATE BROWN SIGNS SB 1013 NARROWING USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY

August 5, 2019:

Calling the state’s death penalty “dysfunctional,” “costly,” and “immoral,” Oregon Governor Kate Brown on August 1, 2019 signed a bill significantly limiting the crimes for which capital punishment can be imposed in the state. The new law amends Oregon’s definition of death-eligible “aggravated murder,” reducing the categories of murder punishable by death from 19 to four. The new law restricts the death penalty to cases involving acts of terrorism in which two or more people are killed, premeditated murders of children aged thirteen or younger, prison murders committed by those already incarcerated for aggravated murder, and premediated murders of police or correctional officers. Oregon’s action continues the steady trend away from capital punishment across the American west. Governors in four western states—Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and California—have imposed moratoria on executions this decade, and the Washington Supreme Court struck down its capital-sentencing statute as unconstitutional in November 2018. In 2011, then-Governor John Kitzhaber in 2011 instituted the first death-penalty moratorium, declaring: “I refuse to be a part of this compromised and inequitable system any longer; and I will not allow further executions while I am Governor.” In halting executions in the state, Kitzhaber said, “I am convinced we can find a better solution that keeps society safe, supports the victims of crime and their families and reflects Oregon values.” In 2015, shortly after taking office, Brown extended the state’s execution moratorium. Oregon has not executed anyone in more than two decades. The only two executions it has conducted since executions resumed in the U.S. in 1977 were in 1996 and 1997, and both involved ”volunteers” who had waived their appeals. Thirty-one people are currently on death row in the state, a vast majority of whom could not have been sentenced to death under the new law. “Oregon’s death penalty is dysfunctional. It is costly and immoral,” said Brown in her prepared remarks. “Our state’s criminal justice system continues to impose death sentences, and send people to death row, even as we know that no one has been executed here in a generation.”

(Sources: The Oregonian, KHSU Radio, Associated Press, 01/08/2019)

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