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Friday, December 30, 2016

Governor Of Washington State grants reprieve in child killer's death sentence


Gov. Jay Inslee granted a reprieve Thursday to a Bellingham man who was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl.

Inslee formally granted the reprieve to Clark Elmore on Thursday, and cited as reasons a "lack of clear deterrent value, high frequency of sentence reversal on appeal, and rising cost," The Bellingham Herald reported.

In 2014, Inslee announced a moratorium on executions in Washington state. Elmore is the first of Washington's death row inmates to exhaust his appeals.

Elmore killed his girlfriend's daughter, Kristy Ohnstad, in a van south of Bellingham in 1995. He raped her, choked her, drove a metal skewer through her skull, beat her and dumped her body in the woods.

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2 comments:

Steve said...

The most expensive bullet I bought this year was $2. Can't afford that, Washington? Even if you did the ten minus one firing squad, it's less than $20.

Find another "reason", DH.

Anonymous said...

There's no increase in the cost of execution! Malarkey being spread by those opposed to death penalty. The rising cost is in keeping these bastards alive & providing for them for the rest of their lives. That poor girl & what she had to suffer! May he suffer worse!...but, he won't.