'Better off without it': Washington closes execution chamber at state penitentiary

Fourteen years after the last death sentence was carried out in Washington, the execution chamber at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla was closed in a ceremony held Wednesday morning.

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.

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[elizabethstanley]

This is one state they should not be getting rid of the death penalty.

[wutafungi]

Maybe it can be opened up again if the voters grow some brains....

[rongoelz]

Death penalty used to prevent crime, now it’s just the same thing as life imprisonment

[streetdocuments]

I think we should have the death penalty but not use it.