Washington death-row inmate Dwayne A. Woods dies of cardiac arrest

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxQl2yx_8knnxkfvAqQRarossgVOKCyaeAgFDtkxP2MbPVEKCyKA5b38sMdR3fEqMFb8ojBY_Su2j0zrEkEO-IuPDuoGfkdtd4y0Wafg-0Eckh-HsLt93Y1XR6u66QxRVmIKOpTD31KAc/s1600/Dwayne+A.+Woods.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Dwayne A. Woods" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxQl2yx_8knnxkfvAqQRarossgVOKCyaeAgFDtkxP2MbPVEKCyKA5b38sMdR3fEqMFb8ojBY_Su2j0zrEkEO-IuPDuoGfkdtd4y0Wafg-0Eckh-HsLt93Y1XR6u66QxRVmIKOpTD31KAc/s320/Dwayne+A.+Woods.jpg" title="Dwayne A. Woods" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dwayne A. Woods</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Dwayne A. Woods was convicted in 1997 of killing two women in Spokane Valley.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the nine people on Washington state’s death row has died of cardiac arrest, while in a medical facility for a chronic illness, according to the state Department of Corrections.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dwayne A. Woods, 46, sentenced to death nearly 20 years ago, died Sunday night at the Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland, according to the Department of Corrections, which noted that he had been under observation for a chronic illness. The department news release gave no other details about his medical condition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An autopsy will be performed, the news release said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Woods, who was in the state prison in Walla Walla, was convicted in June 1997 on two counts of aggravated first-degree murder in the killings of Telisha Shaver, 22, and Jade Moore, 18.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shaver and Moore were raped and beaten on the head with a baseball bat in a Spokane Valley mobile home in April 1996, according to The Spokesman-Review.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The two women knew Woods, then 25, because he had been dating Shaver’s sister.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gov. Jay Inslee in 2014 announced a moratorium on state executions, saying the way the death penalty is applied is too flawed to let more go forward.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Inslee last week <a href="http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2016/12/washington-governor-jay-inslee-grants.html" target="_blank">signed a reprieve for Clark Richard Elmore</a>, who had been convicted of raping and killing his girlfriend’s 14-year-old daughter, Kristy Ohnstad, in Bellingham in 1995. Elmore will remain in prison for life. With his legal appeals exhausted, Elmore’s execution had been scheduled for Jan. 19.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite Inslee’s moratorium, executions are still part of state law, so any reprieves require that Inslee exercise his authority as governor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">No execution date had been set for Woods.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Source: <a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/washington-death-row-inmate-dies-of-cardiac-arrest/" target="_blank">Seattle Times</a>, Seattle Times staff, January 2, 2017<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">⚑ | Report an error, an omission; suggest a story or a new angle to an existing story; submit a piece; recommend a resource; contact the webmaster, contact us: <a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com">deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a>.</div><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px solid rgb(255, 204, 0); color: black; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4sspwgGptzvuHVklum5TwxKppRN-lIC5TN8RLZFq_B4ZOtBrX1ssXPNKQ6XpSyQFRJRtVQN45HMkpt3VX0JtOW0TovwxZAurG-AV6gh98IAXo7Ip6QlpkZr9WrM3_m943Mwy-gGxBAY/s1600/Find+us+Facebook.jpg" /></a></div></td> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiULIPEaT_P6oIauxAZd17XRRxljesDLS7iIjdQXT7Xct99uHeohx4IYmiAB6S044gTjMDGSy50sL2vDzOyPZ-3vJj9zwcYQ2rgzJh9v1-QDiunKAQtLLLqJ83s38qN3HABxGIC8GsIOD0/s1600/Find+us+twitter.jpg" /></a><span id="goog_1427852018"></span><span id="goog_1427852019"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><b>Opposed to Capital Punishment? 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Washington death-row inmate Dwayne A. Woods dies of cardiac arrest

Dwayne A. Woods Dwayne A. Woods was convicted in 1997 of killing two women in Spokane Valley. One of the nine people on Washington state’s d...

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