By Taylor McAvoy
WNPA Olympia News Bureau 

State lawmakers to again consider eliminating capital punishment

 

Last updated 1/10/2018 at 10:14am



A bill to be introduced this session would eliminate the death penalty in Washington state and require people convicted of first degree murder to serve life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson requested Senate bill 6052 after Senate bills proposing the same legislation did not pass through a committee hearing last year.

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