Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed an order Tuesday to commute the sentences of the state’s 17 death row inmates. The term-limited politician who leaves office in less than a month announ…
Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed an order Tuesday to commute the sentences of the state’s 17 death row inmates.the move Tuesday. She said she would use her executive clemency powers to change the sentences of the inmates to life imprisonment. None will be eligible for parole.
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement. “Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row. Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral.
The following year, the Oregon Department of Corrections announced plans to phase out death row. It began reassigning inmates to other housing units across the state. “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,” Brown said Tuesday.
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