<P> On February 11, 2014, Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced a capital punishment moratorium . All death penalty cases that come to Inslee will result in him issuing a reprieve, not a pardon or commutation . </P> <P> On February 13, 2015, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced a moratorium on the death penalty . Wolf will issue a reprieve for every execution until a commission on capital punishment, which was established in 2011 by the Pennsylvania State Senate, produces a recommendation . Effectively there was a moratorium in place, as the state had not executed anyone since Gary M. Heidnik in 1999 . </P>

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