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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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“I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don’t they take up their own causes and obvious needs?”
—Dorothy Thompson (1894–1961)
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—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)