Around ten o'clock on the night of January 4, 1993, Timothy Kaufman-Osborn stood outside the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. A little after midnight on January 5, Westley Allan Dodd would face the death penalty on three counts of aggravated first-degree murder. Not only would Dodd's execution be the first in Washington State in 27 years, but it would also be the first legal hanging in the US since 1965.
1,267
The number of government-sanctioned executions in the United States since 1976.
2.3 million
The average cost of a death penalty case in Texas.
5
Number of executions in Washington...
The September 10 execution of Cal Coburn highlighted Washington's archaic mentality toward the death penalty. A mentality in which murder can be dignified and humane.
