Posted on 07/20/2022 2:51:41 PM PDT by zeestephen
The hyphenated last name is a clue. Common with illegals.
No Bellevue is an autonomous city in King county. Bellevue is heads and tails different than Seattle.
Yes. It’s in the booking notes several radio stations are reporting.
I believe Washington still has the death penalty...but it will never be used. Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer that killed dozens of women got life in prison in exchange for leading detectives to the remains of other women that he killed.
I think it is an unwritten rule now that if he didn’t get death, nobody will.
Oops. I guess it has been abolished. Determined to be unconstitutional (Washington’s constitution) because it is racist!
From Wiki:
On February 11, 2014, Governor Jay Inslee announced a capital punishment moratorium. All death penalty cases that come to Inslee will result in him issuing a reprieve, not a pardon or commutation.
On January 16, 2017, Governor Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson introduced legislation to abolish the death penalty in Washington state. Though the legislation failed to pass, Governor Inslee stated a commitment to ending capital punishment in the future.
On October 11, 2018, the Washington Supreme Court found that the state’s current death penalty statute violated the Constitution of Washington, on the ground that it resulted in racial bias, thus abolishing capital punishment in the state. All of the court’s members agreed in the result. The court based its conclusions on a regression analysis by University of Washington sociologist Katherine Beckett which had been commissioned by a condemned prisoner.
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