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    Governor Inslee is a gutless flake like Colorado's Hickenlooper if he doesn't allow this to happen. He needs to uphold the law of the land. That being said, even if Inslee let's this happen, does Washington even have drugs? They used thiopental for their last execution in 2010. Hard to say what they have by now.
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    They could hang him. They still maintain their gallows and its on the books. Hopefully their Gov doesn't puss out.
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    What we need to do is hope and pray that Inslee has a change of heart.
    I for one, think if we email him, en masse it might sway him

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    Prosecutor asks Inslee to allow child killer’s execution

    Clark Richard Elmore has an execution date in less than one month.

    But the odds of Washington state going through with it are slim. Gov. Jay Inslee pledged two years ago to halt executions while he’s in office, and he was just re-elected.

    Despite that, Whatcom County prosecutor Dave McEachran went to Olympia last week to try to persuade Inslee to make an exception for Elmore, a Bellingham man who raped and murdered a child in 1995.

    He acknowledged to the Bellingham Herald that his effort is a long shot. But he said he brought the case file and crime scene photos to show the governor the horror the jurors saw before condemning Elmore to die.

    Inslee has yet to take any action in the case. He can grant a reprieve, commute the sentence to life without parole or allow the Jan. 19 execution.

    Since Inslee’s pledge, Elmore is the first of Walla Walla’s nine death row inmates to exhaust every appeal in the higher courts.

    In a taped confession, he told police he attacked his girlfriend’s daughter, 14-year-old Kristy Lynn Ohnstad, when she threatened to report him for molesting her when she was younger.

    After raping and killing her and dumping her body near Lake Samish, Elmore criticized law enforcement for doing too little to find the girl – and even organized a search party to look for her.

    He then fled to Eugene intending to steal his twin brother’s identity, before deciding to return to Bellingham and surrender.

    As with many death penalty cases, the courts have heard numerous appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal in October, a decision that drew a dissent from Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

    They argued that Elmore’s trial lawyer failed to investigate evidence that the defendant had brain damage.

    Elmore grew up next to an airstrip in Springfield, Oregon, where soil samples showed toxins at 4,500 times the maximum allowed by state law. He watched planes crop-dusting, or refilling with pesticides, from his backyard.

    He later worked on cars and oil pipelines, and regularly melted lead batteries. At 17, he left home to serve in Vietnam, where he repaired Agent Orange pumps without protective gear.

    Though Inslee vowed to halt executions, the death penalty remains on the books. Once Inslee leaves office, another governor can choose to restart executions at the maximum security prison in Walla Walla, where Elmore has been housed for two decades.

    Last year McEachran wrote to Inslee saying state law requires a case-by-case review of capital cases, not a blanket reprieve for everyone on death row. He asked to meet if Elmore’s appeals ran out. Inslee granted a meeting this week. For about a half-hour, McEachran said, he implored the governor to focus on how the girl suffered.

    “This is not some philosophical issue; it’s reality,” McEachran told a reporter. “He’s had his due process. We’ve due-processed him to death.”

    http://www.spokesman.com/stories/201...-killers-exec/
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    Governor grants reprieve in Bellingham child killer’s death sentence

    Gov. Jay Inslee granted a reprieve Thursday to a Bellingham man sentenced to death for the rape and murder Kristy Lynn Ohnstad.

    Clark Richard Elmore killed his girlfriend’s teenage daughter, Kristy, in a rust-colored van south of Lake Samish in April 1995. He raped her, choked her until she passed out, drove a metal skewer through her skull, beat her with a sledgehammer, and dumped her body in the woods off Nulle Road.

    She was 14.

    Kristy wasn’t found for days. Elmore led his own search party. He told local media the police weren’t trying hard enough. Once the body was found, he fled to SeaTac in his van, caught a bus, and headed to his home state of Oregon. Then he reconsidered. He caught a flight back to Bellingham, and turned himself in.

    Elmore pleaded guilty as charged to aggravated first-degree murder, knowing the prosecutor would seek a death sentence. At the penalty phase a Whatcom County jury found no good cause to show leniency. He was sentenced to death May 3, 1996.

    Over the past two decades Elmore has appealed, in hope of having his sentence overturned. He has never disputed his guilt. In October the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his case, and weeks ago the U.S. 9th Circuit Court denied a rehearing. An execution date was set for Jan. 19.

    Inslee formally granted a reprieve Thursday. Two years earlier he had announced a moratorium on executions in Washington state. Since then Elmore is the first of Washington’s death row inmates to exhaust all of his appeals.

    “Governor Inslee has been very consistent that his moratorium on the death penalty cases in Washington isn’t about individual cases,” reads a statement released Thursday by the governor’s office. “As he stated when he announced the moratorium in 2014 the action is based on the governor’s belief that the use of capital punishment across the state is inconsistent and unequally applied – sometimes dependent on the budget of the county where the crime occurred.”

    Whatcom County Prosecutor Dave McEachran met with Inslee last week to ask him to reconsider the ban, and to make an exception in Elmore’s case. McEachran conceded it was a long shot, and he doubted he changed the governor’s mind. Kristy’s family spoke with Inslee, too, and “expressed a preference to see Elmore serve life in prison,” according to the governor’s office.

    McEachran told a reporter Thursday he believes the governor must find good cause in each case to use his power of reprieve, rather than as a blanket policy. The governor’s reasons for the reprieve – a “lack of clear deterrent value, high frequency of sentence reversal on appeal, and rising cost” – do not constitute good cause, in McEachran’s view.

    “I am disappointed,” McEachran said in a brief written statement, “that after 21 years of appeals, in which the sentence of death has been upheld by the highest courts in the state and the United States, the governor has derailed the sentence.”

    Elmore remains at the state prison in Walla Walla, along with Washington’s eight other death row inmates.

    A future governor can nix the reprieve, and allow the execution to go forward. Voters reelected Inslee in November.

    Inslee’s statement concludes: “The governor urges the state legislature to end the death penalty once and for all.”

    http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news...#storylink=cpy
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    Can't I'm surprised but this is absolutely pathetic. What a worthless potato head Inslee is. Hopefully the next governor actually has some balls.
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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Thank god he didn't communute his sentence.

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    Governor defends reprieve of death row inmate, calls penalty ‘unfair to taxpayers’

    Governor Jay Inslee has called on state lawmakers to abolish the death penalty once and for all, calling it an “archaic” punishment that does nothing to reduce crime and costs taxpayers millions of dollars.

    Eight men remain on Washington state’s death row after a ninth died Sunday when he went into cardiac arrest while being treated for an existing medical condition, the Washington Department of Corrections said.

    Dwayne A. Woods, 46, passed away while under in-patient observation at the Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland, Wash. He had been on death row since 1997 for the aggravated murders of Telisha Shaver, 22, and Jade Moore, 18.

    Woods’ death came just days after Governor Inslee quietly granted a reprieve for another death row inmate – Clark Richard Elmore.

    Elmore, 65, has been on death row since 1995 for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Christy Onstad in Bellingham. Onstad was the daughter of Elmore’s live-in girlfriend.

    In an interview Wednesday on “Q13 News This Morning,” Inslee defended his reprieve of Elmore and once again urged lawmakers in the state to change the law and put an end to capital punishment for good.

    “It costs millions and millions of dollars. It is inequitably applied because it is not applied in the vast majority of the state of Washington … because counties can’t afford to prosecute people,” he said, referring to the cost of capital cases. “So it's an archaic thing that needs to be changed and I’ve taken a position to respect what I believe is fairness in our system and justice for taxpayers.”

    In 2014, Inslee issued a moratorium on the death penalty, which prevents future inmates sent to death row from being executed while he is in office. Meanwhile, with capital punishment still on the books in Washington, some prosecutors continue to pursue capital cases – often spending millions of dollars to fight for a punishment that may never be carried out.

    “The moratorium that Governor Inslee announced several years ago and the reprieve that he announced last week, they don’t change the law and they don’t change the sentences for the individuals involved,” King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said Wednesday.

    “It just, basically, kicks the can down the road for the next governor or governors who might have a different view. So, all the things that have been complained about – that it’s too slow, too expense – are actually made worse by the moratorium. It actually takes longer now because we know for the next four years we’re not going to be able to carry out any sentences.”

    In 2015, Satterberg, on behalf of The Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, called on lawmakers to send a death penalty referendum to voters.

    “I think we want to know before we go down this road of capital ligation, which can take 20 years from the time a person is convicted to the time they’re executed, is we want to know whether we have the public support to do it,” Satterberg told Q13 News.

    Governor Inslee disagrees. He hopes lawmakers will handle the issue on their own.

    “What I would suggest is that the legislature change the law,” he said. “It would bring clarity to it and that would be the best way to deal with this.”

    http://q13fox.com/2017/01/04/governo...-to-taxpayers/
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    Washington Supreme Court tosses out state’s death penalty

    OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the death penalty, as applied, violates its Constitution.

    The ruling Thursday makes Washington the latest state to do away with capital punishment. The court was unanimous in its order that the eight people currently on death row have their sentences converted to life in prison. Five justices said the “death penalty is invalid because it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner.”

    “Given the manner in which it is imposed, the death penalty also fails to serve any legitimate penological goals,” the justices wrote.

    Four other justices, in a concurrence, wrote that while they agreed with the majority’s conclusions and invalidation of the death penalty, “additional state constitutional principles compel this result.”

    Gov. Jay Inslee, a one-time supporter of capital punishment, had imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in 2014, saying that no executions would take place while he’s in office.

    In a written statement, Inslee called the ruling “a hugely important moment in our pursuit for equal and fair application of justice.”

    “The court makes it perfectly clear that capital punishment in our state has been imposed in an ‘arbitrary and racially biased manner,’ is ‘unequally applied’ and serves no criminal justice goal,” Inslee wrote.

    The ruling was in the case of Allen Eugene Gregory, who was convicted of raping, robbing and killing Geneine Harshfield, a 43-year-old woman, in 1996.

    His lawyers said the death penalty is arbitrarily applied and that it is not applied proportionally, as the state Constitution requires.

    In its ruling Thursday, the high court did not reconsider any of Gregory’s arguments pertaining to guilty, noting that his conviction for aggravated first degree murder “has already been appealed and affirmed by this court.”

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...death-penalty/
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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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