The death penalty has ended in Washington State! On October 11th of this year, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the death penalty is unconstituitonal as applied.

We can expect attempts to "fix" the broken death penalty - and we will be here to counter those attempts. 

We agree with what Supreme Court Justice Blackmun had to say over 20 years ago, on February 22, 1994:

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed, I have struggled--along with a majority of this Court, to develop procedural and substantive rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavor. Rather than continue to coddle the Court's delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. It is virtually self evident to me now that no combination of procedural rules or substantive regulations ever can save the death penalty from its inherent constitutional deficiencies.

W​e've been eagerly anticipating this amazing day of giving! There is much to celebrate! If you're as passionate as we are about ending the death penalty across the U.S. and the globe - and keeping it out of Washington State - then we hope you'll consider supporting Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty on this #GivingTuesday!

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