Kyle Hedquist News Today

PENDLETON — One Oregonian is traveling the state to discuss the benefits of the state’s Measure 110.

Kyle Hedquist was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Roseburg teen Nikki Thrasher in 1994. His sentenced was commuted in April 2022 by then Governor Kate Brown; four month

Kyle Hedquist and Kyle Black served more than 25 years each in Oregon prisons after pleading guilty to separate murders. Now they're fixtures in criminal justice policy talks at the state Capitol.

This article first appeared in Bolts Magazine and is republished with permission. One of the first things they saw when they walked into the prison was the wheelchairs. One after another, something like 40 chairs and walkers were lined up neatly outside each cell, stretching away into the distance. It was a jarring sight even for Kyle Hedquist, who’d worked for many years as a hospice volunteer during the decades he spent locked up there....

Proposed legislation would ease the extraordinarily difficult road that incarcerated Oregonians face in securing compassionate release.

 

Sen. Ron Wyden’s thoughtless and ill-informed criticism of Gov. Kate Brown’s courageous grant of clemency to Kyle Hedquist is inappropriate and distressing.

Republican governors took the top 11 spots in a job-approval poll released Thursday while Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, brought up the rear.

"It doesnt put a lot of faith in our judicial system when youve got one person who can take what a judge and a jury found fit for this person

Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said on "Fox & Friends First" that he was absolutely disgusted by Governor Kate Brown's decision to grant clemency to Kyle Hedquist.