By STEPHANIE KLEIN
MyNorthwest.com

Cal Coburn Brown, 51, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday, which would be the 78th execution in Washington state since 1904.

According to the Department of Corrections, none of the 77 people were women, 65 were caucasian, seven were African American, two were Asian, two were Hispanic, and one Eskimo.

The state uses two methods of execution: lethal injection and hanging. Lethal injection is always used unless the inmate chooses hanging.

The youngest man executed in the state was 17-year-old Walter Dubuc, a laborer from Thurston County. According to historylink.org, Dubuc died by hanging in 1932 at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary. The hanging was the first and only double execution in state history when his co-defendant Harold Carpenter, 35, was also hanged.

Dubuc and Carpenter robbed and beat an 85-year-old man at his home. Both were convicted of first-degree murder.

The oldest man executed was Frederick Johns, a 63-year-old machinist from Stevens County.

The last time Washington state executed an inmate was in 2001 with James Homer Elledge, a 58-year-old janitor from Snohomish County. Elledge was convicted of murdering a woman in the basement of a church.

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