Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced this week that she is commuting the death sentences of every person on death row in the state as one of her final acts in office, saying, “I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life.”
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks at an Axios News Shapers event on February 22, 2019, in Washington, D.C.Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced this week that she is commuting the death sentences of every person on death row in the state as one of her final acts in office, citing the cruelty of the death penalty.awaiting the death penalty in the state will now be sentenced to life in prison without parole, otherwise known as death by incarceration.
Brown, a Democrat, said that the death penalty is “both dysfunctional and immoral.” “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,” the governor saidThe death penalty is an inhumane punishment that activists have long sought to end entirely.
The governor’s decision “reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral,” Brown 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.”
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