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A lawyer for the state said some inmates had already been released and face masks have been given out.

Brusic says he and other prosecutors around the state knew this would happen once the death penalty was struck down in Washington.

Washington has had a moratorium on executions since 2014, but the ruling makes it the 20th state to do away with capital punishment.

Officials say the court will decide on July 5 to whether or not to hear the case, allow a Superior Court to take action or dismiss the case.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — With the deadline to avoid a potential government shutdown looming later this week, legislative leaders say that while they are close, they've not yet reached final agreement on a new two-year state operating budget. The Democratic-controlled House and Republican-led Senate have been struggling for months to reach agreement on a budget that addresses a state Supreme Court man

SEATTLE (AP) — As counties across Washington respond to a far-reaching state Supreme Court decision involving water rights, angry and frustrated property owners are finding they cannot depend on groundwater wells to build new homes as they have in the past...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction of a teen who had told his therapist that he thought about taking a gun to school to shoot students who had teased him. In an 8-1 ruling issued Thursday, the court rejected arguments that a ruling from the U...

OLYMPIA (AP) — The state Supreme Court has ruled that $100,000-a-day sanctions should continue against Washington state while a taskforce continues its work to determine how the state will comply with a court order to fully fund the state's basic education system...

SPOKANE (AP) — The case of Spokane serial killer Robert Yates is heading back to the state Supreme Court, but it's unlikely he'll ever be a free man. Yates is asking the high court to grant him a new sentencing hearing for two murders he committed in 1975...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Attorneys for the state of Washington told the state Supreme Court that they are on the path to comply with a court order to fully fund the state's basic education system, and that a contempt order and sanctions should be lifted...