Oregon State Senate 79th Oregon Legislative Assembly, which holds its regular session from 2017 to 2018, has the following leadership: Senate President: Peter Courtney (D–11 Salem)<br> President Pro Tempore: Laurie Monnes Anderson (D–25 Gresham)<br> Majority Leader: Ginny Burdick (D–18 Portland)<br> Minority Leader: Jackie Winters (R–10 Salem) Oregon State Senate The Oregon State Senate is the upper house of the statewide legislature for the US state of Oregon. Along with the lower chamber Oregon House of Representatives it makes up the Oregon Legislative Assembly. There are 30 members of the State Senate, representing 30 districts across the state, each with a population of 114,000.
Oregon State Penitentiary (with two men and one woman, also slated for execution, held elsewhere for medical reasons). Death row includes notorious serial killers such as Dayton Leroy Rogers. OSP also contains the lethal injection chamber where prisoners are executed. Executions in Oregon were conducted in public by counties until 1902, when they were centralized (and made less spectacular) at the State Penitentiary. Since the US Supreme Court reaffirmed the death penalty in "Gregg v. Georgia" (1976), Oregon has executed only two people: Douglas Wright, in 1996, and Harry Charles Moore, in 1997. Governor John Kitzhaber announced an official moratorium on executions in