A “Conspiracy of Convenience” has convicted me of murders that I did not commit and has sentenced me to languish in the cruelest of death rows awaiting an unwarranted legal murder. It was convenient for Clallam County to persecute me. It was convenient for my attorneys to not defend me against false charges and evidence. It was convenient for the judge to deny my request for fair representation and then to deny me the right to represent myself. And it has been convenient for appellate courts to deny me a new and fair trial at every step of the way. All to protect a faulty conviction! Please read my appeal and ask these courts why so many of my questions go ignored and unanswered. Please contact them and demand a new and fair trial in which my innocence will be proven. If my faulty conviction is allowed to stand, the next victim of “convenience” could be you!


Posted July 2010

This is Stenson's last chance for a new trial. Please support him by writing to the people and offices below.


Stenson's writings while on death row:

Federal Public Reference - March 2011 (PDF)Recently added.
Personal Restraint Petition - June 2010 (PDF)
Personal Restraint Petition - March 2010 (PDF)
Personal Restraint Petition - September 2009 (PDF)
Appeal to the WA State Supreme Court - May 2009 (PDF)
Letter to Christine Gregoire - 5/13/09 (PDF)
Letter to Judge Williams - 5/13/09 (PDF)
Petition to WA State Supreme Court - 5/24/99 (PDF)
Petition to Judge Williams - 8/19/94 (PDF)
Petition to Judge Williams - 7/14/94 (PDF)
A February 5, 2010 update from Darold Stenson
Death Row Tidbits—Did You Know?
More Death Row Tidbits
Why Me??
Death Penalty Blues
"Convict at any Cost!"

Please write to the following people and offices:

Governor Chris Gregoire
Office of the Governor
PO Box 40002
Olympia, WA 98504-0002
Phone: 360-902-4111
FAX: 360-753-4110
Website: http://www.governor.wa.gov/contact/
Marty Loesch, Senior Advisor and General Counsel to the Governor
Office of the Governor
PO Box 40002
Olympia, WA 98504-0002
Phone: 360-902-0499
Fax: 360-466-5309
Email: marty.loesch@gov.wa.gov
Camilla Faulk, Capital Case Manager
415-12th St SW
Olympia, WA 98504-0929
Phone: 360-357-2072
Fax: 360-357-2102
Email: camillafaulk@courts.wa.gov
Kenneth Williams, Clallam County Judge
Superior Court, 223 East Fourth St.
Port Angeles, WA 98362
Email: web_supcrt@co.clallam.wa.us
Phone: 360-417-2386
Email: mclevenger@co.clallam.wa.us

Background info about the death penalty and innocence:

Death Penalty Information Center
Innocence and the Death Penalty
Amnesty International
Famous wrongful murder convictions