On this day: January 5

1. 1982
   Victim Tammy Williams · Michael Ross
2. 1993
   Prison Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla · Westley Allan Dodd

   Dodd was hanged here at 12:05 a.m. on January 5, 1993, the first execution in Washington since 1963 and the first legal hanging in the United States since 1965.