Oregon Gov. Kate Brown commutes 17 death sentences, ending death row

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Digital subscription only $8.25/mth Only two people have been executed in Oregon since 1984, the year voters approved a constitutional amendment adopting the death penalty in limited circumstances.
40% : "It's been said before, but capital punishment is more a statement about who we are as a society than about the people we sentence to death," Singh said.
38% : Oregon enters a new era today where the values that make our state better come to the forefront and we leave behind the death penalty as a relic of a cruel past."
32% : In a statement after Brown's announcement, the center's executive director, Bobbin Singh, said it was past time to end the death penalty.
28% : "Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral," Brown said.
23% : Before Brown's action, there were 17 people facing the death penalty, several of whom would not have been subject to the death penalty if they were sentenced today.

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