The ‘death chamber’ is located inside the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) officials are planning to take its last “death chamber” offline Wednesday morning. The small room, located inside the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla is where inmates sentenced to death had a choice: die by hanging or by lethal injection.
Seventy-eight inmates have been executed there since 1904, the last person being Cal Coborn Brown in 2010.
In 2014, Governor Jay Inslee instituted a moratorium on the death penalty. Following a state Supreme Court ruling in 2018 stating the way the death
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