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Olympia roundup: Capital punishment, open carry, reproductive health, education

Lawmakers seek to end capital punishment

Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced their policy plan Monday for getting rid of the death penalty, according to multiple news outlets.

Inslee put a moratorium on the death penalty in 2014, but no repeal policy has made it through the legislature since then.

Rachel LaCorte puts it into context in this report for the Associated Press:

“There have been 78 inmates, all men, put to death in Washington state since 1904. The last execution in the state came in September 2010, when Cal Coburn Brown died by lethal injection for the 1991 murder of a Seattle-area woman. After spending nearly 17 years on death row, he was the first Washington inmate executed since 2001.”

Rallies

Open carry advocates appeared at the Statehouse Friday, and called for increased turnout of firearm owners. Joe O’Sullivan, with The Seattle Times tweeted from the rally:

O’Sullivan also highlighted a Planned Parenthood support rally Monday.

Hundreds of teachers marched in Olympia Monday to call for increasing education funding, according to a KIRO Channel 7 report.

 


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