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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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.
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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.
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