Killing Time: Dead Men Waiting on Oregon's Death Row

Leah Nash/Willamette Week
Willamette Week | January 23, 2008
The state's machinery of death is clearly in place. But since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to resume executions in 1976, Oregon has killed only two men. Meanwhile, 35 men sit alone this week in their cells on death row.

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