Washington is the latest state to suspend the death penalty -- so long as Governor Jay Inslee is in office, that is.

(Washington does away with the death penalty, Creative Commons)

Inslee announced his decision to ban executions on Tuesday.

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He claimed that the capital punishment system is fundamentally flawed.

"And when the ultimate decision is death, there is too much at stake to accept an imperfect system," Inslee said. 

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