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The Tab for a Washington Execution

By Steve Hall

"Wash. spent nearly $98K to execute Brown," is the title of Shannon Dininny's AP report, via the Seattle Times. The state Department of Corrections spent $97,814 to execute convicted murderer Cal Coburn Brown, the agency said Monday. Brown died by lethal injection Sept. 10 for the 1991 murder of a Seattle-area woman. He was the first Washington inmate executed since 2001, after spending nearly 17 years on death row. The Corrections Department said $75,863 of the $97,814 total went toward employee wages related to the execution. The department sent officials from its headquarters in Olympia to the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla to oversee the execution, and the prison beefed up security that day. Another $5,745 was used for travel expenses and $16,206 went to goods and services, including the cost of the drug used to execute Brown and security fencing for protesters and the media, among other items...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 17, 2010 (boomark / email).