On October 11th 2018 the Washington State Supreme Court declared Washington's death penalty unconstitutional as applied. 

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The case was heard in January 2016. WCADP submitted an amicus brief.

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in January 2018 WCADP submitted a supplemental amicus brief.

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The court's ruling was largely based on the report by Katherine Beckett and Heather Evans, which found that  juries were more than four times more likely to impose a death sentence when the defendant was Black than in cases involving similarly situated non-Black defendants.

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From the court ruling:

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