[5] In case of a hung jury during the penalty phase of the trial, a life sentence is issued, even if a single juror opposed death (there is no retrial).
The men's death row is located, and executions are carried out, at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.
Women on death row are held at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility until shortly before their execution.
Capital punishment was made explicitly legal by statute in 1864, and executions have been carried out exclusively at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem since 1904.
Measure 8 was overturned by the Oregon Supreme Court in 1981, on the grounds that it denied defendants the right to be tried by a jury of their peers.
[11][14] In 2000, the Benetton Group featured several inmates on Oregon's death row in a controversial anti-death penalty advertising campaign.
Cesar Barone, Conan Wayne Hale, Jesse Caleb Compton, and Alberto Reyes Camarena were featured in the ad.
[4] Governor Brown's successor, Tina Kotek, stated her own personal opposition to the death penalty and her intention to continue the moratorium established by her predecessors.
[18][19][20][1] On 1 August 2019, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that restricts the death penalty to four cases: (1) acts of terrorism in which two or more people are killed by an organized terrorist group