Russ Feingold

It's just really tragic that after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years, we can't leave behind something as primitive as government sponsored execution.

-Russ Feingold

Aberon Waugh

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong.

-Aberon Waugh

Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

-Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun

John Donne

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

-John Donne

Helen Prejean

Government... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of it's citizens to kill.

-Sister Helen Prejean

Issues

Innocence

Go to http://www.ncadp.org/pages/innocence

Foreign Nationals

Go to http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/foreign-nationals-and-death-penalty-us

Women

Go to http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/women-and-death-penalty

US Military

Go to http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/us-military-death-penalty

Race

Go to http://www.ncadp.org/pages/racial-bias

Oregon Death Row

Go to http://www.oregon.gov/doc/GECO/docs/pdf/death_row_inmates.pdf

Mental Retardation

Go to http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/category/categories/issues/mental-retardation

Mental Illness

Go to http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/mental-illness-and-death-penalty

Juveniles

Go to http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/juveniles-and-death-penalty

Federal Death Penalty

Go to http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/federal-laws-providing-death-penalty

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Common Questions

Does Oregon currently have the death penalty?

Capital punishment is legal in the U.S. state of Oregon. The first execution under the territorial government was in 1851. Capital punishment was made explicitly legal by statute in 1864, and executions have been carried out exclusively at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem since 1904. The death penalty was outlawed between 1914 and 1920, again between 1964 and 1978, and then again between a 1981 Oregon Supreme Court ruling and a 1984 ballot measure. Since 1904, about 60 individuals have been executed in Oregon. Aggravated murder is the only crime subject to the penalty of death under Oregon law.