Oregon voters put the death penalty into the Constitution when they were allowed to do so because of the U.S. Supreme Court and that people should take it out as opposed to a de facto repeal ...

Death penalty rare in modern Oregon. Recent changes by the Legislature and rulings by the Oregon Supreme Court resulted in fewer people on Oregon’s death row. Since 2019, ...

Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is commuting the sentences of all 17 people on death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to a news release Tuesday from her office.

The Oregon Death Penalty Cost Analysis report was funded by the Oregon Justice Resource Center, a Portland-based nonprofit, and written by Professor Aliza Kaplan from Lewis & Clark Law School, ...

Oregon’s death penalty history is complicated, with several rounds of back-and-forth on the issue. Oregonians have voted twice to ban the practice and twice to reinstate it, most recently in 1984. The ...

Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is commuting the sentences of all 17 people on death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to a news release Tuesday from her office ...

Capital punishment has never been a sure thing in Oregon, and no one has been executed since 1997. That said, the death penalty remains on the books.

Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is commuting the sentences of all 17 people on death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to a news release Tuesday from her office.

Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is commuting the sentences of all 17 people on death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to a news release Tuesday from her office.

Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is commuting the sentences of all 17 people on death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to a news release Tuesday from her office ...

Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is commuting the sentences of all 17 people on death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to a news release Tuesday from her office ...