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Feb 11 Event: 'Race Talks" Kennedy School Portland POSTPONED--WEATHER

On February 11, an event called "Race Talks" will take place at the Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave. Portland 97211 at 7 PM. It will feature three OADP speakers Mark Kramer, attorney, Jan Slick, clinical social worker and jury consultant, and Frank Thompson, former Superintendent of Oregon State Prisons. Facilitated discussion about the racist administration of the death penalty in America will follow. No charge. Read More

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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.