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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Capital punishment is legal in the U.S. state of Oregon. The first execution under the territorial government was in 1850. Five Cayuse, were taken to Oregon City, tried and sentenced to hang. Before his execution on June 3, 1850, Tiloukaikt accepted Catholic last rites. Tiloukaikt spoke on the gallows, \"Did not your missionaries teach us that Christ died to save his people? So we die to save our people.\" 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. The death penalty was outlawed between 1914 and 1920, again between 1964 and 1978, and then again between a 1981 Oregon Supreme Court ruling and a 1984 ballot measure.Since 1904, about 60 individuals have been executed in Oregon. Thirty-five people are on Oregon's death row as of 11 February 2015. The current method of execution in Oregon is lethal injection. Aggravated murder is the only crime subject to the penalty of death under Oregon law.In November 2011, then Governor John Kitzhaber announced a moratorium on executions in Oregon, canceling a planned execution and ordering a review of the death penalty system in the state.However, Kitzhaber's successor, Governor Kate Brown suggested that executions could resume in Oregon."@en }

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