Episode 36, Part 1: The Death Penalty in Washington State – The Joseph Self Case
Podcasts July 20th. 2010, 3:52pmJoseph Chester Self was the 73rd person to be executed in Washington and the last person to be executed in the state until Westley Allan Dodd’s execution on January 5, 1993. During the 30 year hiatus, Washington’s capital punishment statute was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972.
In Part One of this episode of KCLL’s Sidebar, we talk to Dan Riviera, who was among two men to defend Mr. Self.