The Senate of Washington State approved the suspension of the death penalty

The Senate of Washington State approved today the repeal of the death penalty, several months after the The Supreme Court of the State will annul this sanction by a unanimous decision.

The measure, which now concerns the House of Representatives of the Stateproposes that in the case of a death sentence the life sentence is adopted without consideration of parole.

The governor of the state, Jay Insleeand who in 2014 imposed a moratorium on executions, said that he will sign the Bill in case he arrives at your office and get the green light in the low room.

"(This is) a growing public awareness that the death penalty is not an effective administration of justice and that it is certainly unequal."Inslee added.

Although in this state executions are rare, the governor expressed his wish that "Washington join the increasing number of states who choose to put an end to the death penalty ".

October 11, 2018, the highest court in Washington has eliminated the death penaltyhe described as arbitrary and "racial bias", and convictions of eight detainees on death row turned into life imprisonment.

For its part, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, which proposed for the first time a bipartite legislation in 2017 to abolish it, found that the death penalty is unconstitutional in that state.

The decision came after the Attorney General of the State, will present a study from the University of Washington at the Supreme Court showing that Black accused were four times more likely that white defendants be sentenced to death.

Washington had already frozen its death sentence under an Inslee moratorium in 2014, who decided that the executions would not be carried out so long as he would be governor, but the order of the Court declaring that death sentences going to life imprisonment is a radical rejection.

A total of 78 inmates Men have been executed in the state of Washington since 1904. The last of them was Cal Coburn Brown, who died by lethal injection in 2010. after being convicted for the 1991 murder of a woman from the Seattle area.

With information from EFEUSA