Capital punishment in Oregon 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. Oregon voters amended the Constitution in 1914, to repeal the death penalty, by a margin of 50.04%. The repeal was an initiative of
What About Us (The Saturdays song) for supporting the single and supporting them for the past five years. "What About Us" debuted at number six on the Irish Singles Chart, marking the band's fifth top ten single in that country. In the Oceanic region, "What About Us" made its debut at number thirty-six on the New Zealand Singles Chart. The music video for "What About Us" was filmed during the summer of 2012 in Los Angeles, while The Saturdays were filming their reality television series. The North American version of the video was released via The Saturdays' official Vevo account on YouTube on 11 January 2013.