Bill to kill off the death penalty moves through Washington legislature

2-18-2019

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The state Senate has approved a repeal of the death penalty, just months after the state Supreme Court unanimously struck down capital punishment as arbitrary and racially biased.

The measure would replace the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole.

The bill now goes to the House, and Governor Jay Inslee has said he will sign it.