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9 Sep 2010, 11:40 am by Steve Hall
  Officials at the Washington State Penitentiary were making final preparations Thursday as the clock ticked toward the first execution of a Washington inmate in nine years.Death penalty opponents have planned vigils and protests in larger cities across the state, and prison officials have said they will erect barricades for the protesters and media expected to gather outside the southeast Washington prison.Cal Coburn Brown, 52, is… [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 8:11 am
"State's execution team resigns, fearing identities would be reveale," is today's Seattle Times report.Four people who have volunteered to administer lethal injections to death-row inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla quit their positions this week, apparently worried that their identities could become public as a result of an ongoing court case to decide whether lethal injection constitutes cruel and… [read post]
21 May 2009, 8:38 am
Last month, the four-member team responsible for administering lethal injections to death-row inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla resigned out of concern that their identities could become public as part of the Thurston County court case.Earlier coveaage of lethal injection issues is here; related articles are in the lethal injection category index. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 12:19 pm by Steve Hall
Eight men are on death row at the state penitentiary. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 7:35 am by Steve Hall
Washington and Ohio are the only states that use the one-drug method. [read post]
5 Apr 2009, 7:33 am
The four volunteers who administer lethal injections to death-row inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla quit their positions because of fears their identities might become revealed as a result of a judicial ruling. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 5:42 pm
 A new witness in a 15-year-old double murder case prompted Clallam County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Williams to order a stay of execution for former Sequim resident Darold Stenson.Stenson, 55, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Dec. 3 at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for murdering his wife and business partner in 1993 on his exotic bird farm southeast of Sequim.Williams was one of two judges to order a stay on Tuesday.In a… [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 6:45 pm by David M. Boertje
Rowe was recently released from the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, about 300 miles away. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 6:45 pm by David M. Boertje
Rowe was recently released from the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, about 300 miles away. [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 9:41 am
QUITE BY ACCIDENT STERN DISCOVERED THAT ONE OF THE PHARMACISTS AT THE STATE PENITENTIARY WAS ASKED TO PROVIDE THE DRUGS NEEDED FOR THE LETHAL INJECTION. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 9:57 am
It was a warm late afternoon March 12, a Thursday, and preparations were well under way at the Washington State Penitentiary. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 11:50 am
Four executions have taken place at the Washington State Penitentiary under the state’s current law. [read post]
3 Jun 2009, 9:16 am
Inmates' lawyers also point especially to the lack of a current execution team at the State Penitentiary in Walla Walla as proof the state is unprepared for a proper execution. [read post]
8 May 2014, 12:16 pm by Bill Otis
The Washington Post reports:Oklahoma's attorney general asked a court Thursday to delay putting an inmate to death in the wake of a botched execution at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary last month.Attorney General Scott Pruitt's office said in a court filing Thursday that it would agree to a six-month stay of the execution of inmate Charles Warner, who was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection next week. [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 12:55 am
States are rethinking use of death sentences Equality and costs concern officials April 10, 2007 BY TIM JONES CHICAGO TRIBUNE About once a week, a convicted murderer is put to death in a state penitentiary, most often in Texas, where all but one of this year's 12 executions have occurred. [read post]
24 Feb 2021, 10:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
His slave trading activities took an extraordinary turn in 1840 when he purchased twenty-seven enslaved convicts from the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond with the understanding that he could carry them outside of the United States for sale. [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 6:27 am
Typically, those records are kept in the office of the superintendent at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla, he said.And:The team members' identities are a closely guarded secret, known only to a handful of people, said Eldon Vail, secretary of the state DOC. [read post]
21 Nov 2011, 1:36 pm
This information is provided by Washington Injury Attorney blog, a service of The Farber Law Group. [read post]
12 Sep 2010, 8:08 pm by Garry J. Wise, Wise Law Office, Toronto
Carroll “Bud” Pickett, who served as prison chaplain at the Texas state penitentiary at Huntsville for 15 years:Many of the convicts Rev. [read post]