Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) on Tuesday commuted the sentences of all 17 people on the state’s death row, changing their punishment from execution to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Oregon has not executed a prisoner since 1997. Brown was the latest in a string of governors who had committed to a moratorium on the death penalty. She extended the moratorium because the death penalty, she said, was “dysfunctional and immoral.”
Brown, who took office in 2015 and was reelected in 2018, will step down next year at the end of her term limit. Her successor, Tina Kotek , hasAdvertisementbillOregon is among 27 states that authorize capital punishment.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral,” she said. “It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.”An execution in 1996, which was the state’s first in more than three decades, cost taxpayers $200,000,Advocates of criminal justice reform praised Brown’s announcement.
in the New York Times: “It’s hard to avoid giving up some of your empathy and humanity to aid in the killing of another human being.”He said Tuesday that he was “grateful to have lived to see this moment,” adding, “If I had one wish, it would be to be there personally to watch when the execution chamber whose construction I oversaw is officially and permanently dismantled.”
The families of the victims killed by the inmates whose sentences were commuted, however, expressed anger and dismay at Brown’s announcement. Sue Shirley, whose parents were killed by Randy Lee Guzek, one of the death row inmates,Brown said she recognized “the pain and uncertainty victims experience” as inmates waited on death row for years.
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