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Capital punishment is one of two possible penalties for aggravated murder in the U.S. state of Oregon, with it being required by the Constitution of Oregon. [1]In November 2011, 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. [2]
In 1957, Colacurcio began working with Portland crime figure James "Big Jim" Elkins to open prostitution houses in Portland. [3] In the 1960s, Colacurcio opened topless clubs in Seattle and skimmed money. [3] In the 1970s, Colacurcio met with Bonanno crime family member Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno in Yakima, WA to discuss a business relationship ...
During the early morning of August 5, 1949, Thelma Taylor, a 15-year-old sophomore at Roosevelt High School, was waiting for a bus on North Fessenden Street in the St. Johns neighborhood in north Portland, Oregon, intending to travel about 17 miles to the town of Hillsboro to obtain a summer job picking beans.
Forest Park is a public municipal park in the Tualatin Mountains west of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.Stretching for more than 8 miles (13 km) on hillsides overlooking the Willamette River, it is one of the country's largest urban forest reserves.
The resulting suburb was gradually annexed by Portland beginning in the 1960s and completing in 1994. The neighborhood includes the Jade District commercial and cultural center. Powellhurst-Gilbert contains Portland's largest Asian population, making up 17.89% of the city's population. [3]
Ward Francis Weaver III (born April 6, 1963) is an American convicted murderer. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for sexual assault, rape, attempted murder, and the murders of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis in Oregon City, Oregon.
The Portland Police Bureau (PPB), officially the Portland Bureau of Police, is the law enforcement agency of the city of Portland, the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. While oversight of Portland's bureaus shifts among the five City Commissioners, the mayor has historically been assigned to the Police Bureau as the police commissioner.
TriMet's general manager proposed limiting the hours of Fareless Square to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. [15] However, others questioned the logic of linking incidents of crime in Gresham with the existence of a free transit zone located several miles away, in downtown Portland, and TriMet's own statistics showed that in 2007 the agency received very few ...