Washington
Washington has conducted at least 74 executions (only 6 since 1960). Death row inmates are confined at the High Crime Facility with those sentenced to life at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla; there are currently no women on Washington's death row. Washington's executions are required to be conducted at the WSP. Washington's current method of execution is lethal injection; an inmate may choose hanging. Washington's most recent execution was Cal Coburn Brown by lethal injection on September 10, 2010.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dayva Michael Cross | Triple murder by stabbing of his wife and two teen stepdaughters on March 6,1999 | June 22, 2001 | |
| Cecil Emile Davis | Rape and murder by asphyxiation and suffocation of an elderly woman during a burglary of her home on January 25, 1997 | February 6, 1998 | |
| Clark Richard Elmore | Rape and murder of his girlfriend's teen daughter on April 17, 1995 | July 6, 1995 | |
| Johnathan Lee Gentry | Murder by bludgeoning of a young girl on June 13, 1988 | June 26, 1991 | |
| Conner Michael Schierman | Multiple murder of a mother and her two young children, and the woman's sister on July 16, 2006 | April 12, 2010 | |
| Darold Ray Stenson | Multiple murder by shooting of his wife and his business partner on March 25, 1993 | August 11, 1994 | |
| Dwayne A. Woods | Multiple murder of two women on April 27, 1996 | June 20, 1997 | |
| Robert Lee Yates, Jr. | Multiple murder of two women in 1997 and 1998 | Convicted September 19, 2002; sentenced October 4, 2002 | Concurrently serving 408 years for the murders of 13 other women |
Read more about this topic: List Of United States Death Row Inmates
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—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
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