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    In today's Supreme Court orders, Gentry's petition for rehearing was denied.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/c...13zor_1a7d.pdf

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    I'm guessing a February execution date (if not January).

    Who sets execution dates in Washington State?

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    Executions Warrants Issued By State Washington: Trial Court Judge
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    Thanks! So now I'm wondering why the trial court judge in Washington State has not set an X Date for Gentry, as it's been better than a month since SCOTUS declined to rehear Mr. Gentry's case.

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    The setting of an execution date for Gentry is being held up because the Washington Supreme Court is entertaining a successive personal-restraint petition filed by him last month. Briefing is to be completed by January 21st.

    http://www.atg.wa.gov/page.aspx?id=31729

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    Wash. death row inmate Gentry's petition rejected

    Washington's Supreme Court has rejected a petition for release from death row inmate Jonathan Lee Gentry, sentenced for the murder of a 12-year-old girl in 1988.

    Gentry was condemned in 1991 for bludgeoning of Cassie Holden in Bremerton. The girl was visiting her mother from Pocatello, Idaho.

    Gentry, who is black, argued that his trial was tainted by inappropriate, racial comments from the prosecutor and a witness. He sought to apply a decision the court made in an unrelated case in 2011 that was highly critical of race-based prosecutorial misconduct.

    But the justices unanimously determined that their 2011 decision does not apply to earlier cases, including Gentry's. They also concluded that Gentry had shown no evidence of racial bias in his trial.

    Justice Charles Wiggins dissented on another point. He said the case should have been sent back to Superior Court for a statistical review of whether Washington's death penalty is imposed in a racially discriminatory manner.

    http://mynorthwest.com/174/2439673/W...ition-rejected
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    NOW AN X-DATE!!!

    Some time in March or April

    PS Thanks Moh

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    Washington governor halts death penalty

    Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday he was suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state, announcing a move that he hopes will enable officials to "join a growing national conversation about capital punishment."

    The Democrat said he came to the decision after months of review, meetings with family members of victims, prosecutors and law enforcement.

    "There have been too many doubts raised about capital punishment, there are too many flaws in this system today," Inslee said at a news conference. "There is too much at stake to accept an imperfect system."

    Inslee said that the use of the death penalty is inconsistent and unequal. The governor's staff briefed lawmakers about the move on Monday night and Tuesday morning.

    Inslee's moratorium, which will be in place for as long as he is governor, means that if a death penalty case comes to his desk, he will issue a reprieve, which isn't a pardon and doesn't commute the sentences of those condemned to death.

    "During my term, we will not be executing people," said Inslee, who was elected in 2012. "Nobody is getting out of prison, period."

    Last year, Maryland abolished the death penalty, the 18th state to do so and the sixth in the last six years.

    Nine men await execution at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. The state Supreme Court just last month rejected a petition for release from death row inmate Jonathan Lee Gentry, sentenced for the murder of a 12-year-old girl in 1988. Gentry could be the first execution in the state since September 2010, when Cal Coburn Brown died by lethal injection for the 1991 murder of a Seattle-area woman. A federal stay had recently been lifted in Gentry's case, and a remaining state stay on his execution was expected to be lifted this month.

    The decision by the governor comes following a recent decision by the state Department of Corrections, which is in the process of changing its execution protocol to allow witnesses to executions to see the entire process, including the insertion of intravenous catheters during a lethal injection.

    The new witness protocol, currently a draft that is in its final stages of approval, includes the use of television monitors to show the inmate entering the death chamber and being strapped down, as well as the insertion of the IVs, which had both previously been shielded from public view.

    Through public disclosure requests, The Associated Press had sought information about any potential changes to the execution protocols. State corrections officials spoke with the AP about the new procedures late last month.

    The change is in response to a 2012 federal appeals court ruling that said all parts of an execution must be fully open to public witnesses. That ruling was sparked by a case brought by The AP and other news organizations who challenged Idaho's policy to shield the insertion of IV catheters from public view, in spite of a 2002 ruling from the same court that said every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses.

    -- Associated Press

    STATES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY

    Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.

    STATES THAT HAVE ABOLISHED THE DEATH PENALTY

    Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

    http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-wo...-death-penalty
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    One More Cowardly Moratorium

    By Kent Scheidegger
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    Jonathan Lee Gentry was convicted in 1991 of the murder of 12-year-old Cassie Holden in Bremerton, Washington. He bashed her head in with a rock. The circumstances suggested sexual assault, although the autopsy could not conclusively confirm that. The State of Washington has spent the years since defending the judgment against Gentry's numerous attacks. In the Ninth Circuit, even Judge Paez, who almost never votes to affirm a capital sentence, concurred that his claims had no merit. The "normal" appeals ended with the Supreme Court's denial of certiorari last October. The Washington Supreme Court subsequently denied yet another petition last month.

    Now comes Washington Governor Jay Inslee, announcing he will impose a moratorium, granting reprieves so that no one is executed while he is governor. He conveniently omitted any mention of an intent to would do that while campaigning for the office, so as to allow the people of Washington to decide if they wanted a governor who would clear-cut justice in this manner. (Campaign website here.) The election was reasonably close at 51.5 - 48.5, so it is quite possible he would not be governor if he had announced his intentions in advance of the election, which, of course, is precisely why he did not. If anyone reading believes that he has had a change of heart based on recent study and soul-searching, I would like to sell you a bridge. This action is one more in a series of Profiles in Cowardice that we have seen in multiple states. Get elected first, then drop the bomb.

    Inslee's claimed reasons for this action are here. Let's see if a single one actually supports failure to carry out Gentry's thoroughly deserved and thoroughly reviewed punishment.

    First, the practical reality is that those convicted of capital offenses are, in fact, rarely executed. Since 1981, the year our current capital laws were put in place, 32 defendants have been sentenced to die. Of those, 19, or 60%, had their sentences overturned. One man was set free and 18 had their sentences converted to life in prison.

    That is absolutely no reason not to carry out this sentence. The number one reason for high reversal rates in the early days of capital punishment was that the rules were constantly changing and sentences imposed after trials conducted correctly according to the law at the time of the trial were overturned ex post facto. That deplorable situation, largely behind us now, raises no doubt that Gentry's sentence is deserved and justly imposed.

    Second, the costs associated with prosecuting a capital case far outweigh the price of locking someone up for life without the possibility of parole.

    That has nothing to do with the Gentry case, where those costs have already been incurred. Capital cases do indeed cost too much, but they do not need to cost more than a life imprisonment case. A real leader would be leading the charge for the needed reforms.

    Third, death sentences are neither swift nor certain. Seven of the nine men on death row committed their crimes more than 15 years ago, including one from 26 years ago. While they sit on death row and pursue appeal after appeal, the families of their victims must constantly revisit their grief at the additional court proceedings.

    That is downright bizarre. Inslee's order is an order for more delay. He cites excessive delay as a reason? Lead, damn it, and push for reforms to fix the delay. Do not denounce delay and then cause more of it.

    Fourth, there is no credible evidence that the death penalty is a deterrent to murder. That's according to work done by the National Academy of Sciences, among other groups.

    The individuals who co-authored the report concluded that, in their opinion, the evidence on the whole was "not informative." However, the report says right up front, "Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the project." (We don't even know if the report reflects the views of James Q. Wilson, listed as a co-author, as he died before the report was final.)

    This is a subject of continuing hot dispute among experts. Reasonable people can differ as to how convincing the evidence is, but to say there is no credible evidence is wrong.

    In any event, even if one believes that the execution of Gentry would not deter, that is not a reason to fail to follow through with a just, deserved punishment for a horrible crime. Justice is its own justification and does not depend on deterrent effect.

    And finally, our death penalty is not always applied to the most heinous offenders.

    That is no reason. For any penalty we choose to impose, some people will escape it. Some criminals are never caught. Some escape outside our grasp. Some succeed in having essential evidence suppressed. Do we open the doors and let them all out in response? No, of course not.

    If others who deserve the death penalty are not getting it, let us adopt reforms to have it imposed more consistently. That is no reason to refrain from carrying out deserved judgments.

    Of the reasons given, not a single one holds water.

    http://www.crimeandconsequences.com/...oratorium.html

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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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