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Opponents of Washington's new Death with Dignity law are weighing their options. Those include whether to go to court to try to block the citizen initiative from taking effect. Meanwhile, the state Department of Health is starting to figure out how to implement the law. Olympia Correspondent Austin Jenkins reports.

Voters approve Initiative 1000, a statewide measure to allow terminally ill patients to seek doctor assisted suicide. Washington is the second state after Oregon to legalize prescribed lethal medication.

Next month, Washington voters will decide Initiative 1000. It would allow terminally ill patients to request a lethal dose of medication from their doctor. The measure is modeled after Oregon's 'Death with Dignity Act.' Recently, we reported on two widows who are on opposite sides of this debate. Now we hear from doctors including one who is struggling to decide how to vote on I 1000. Olympia Correspondent Austin Jenkins reports.

Should some terminally ill adults be allowed to obtain lethal prescriptions to end their lives? Voters will decide next month. It's Initiative 1000 on the November ballot. What do you think? We'll also be talking about the death penalty. Last week a federal judge rejected the latest appeal by Washington's longest serving death row inmate, Jonathan Lee Gentry. He's been on death row for 17 years. We'll hear from a man who spent 17 years, and eight months on Florida's death row before being exonerated. Juan Melendez is now a board member of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Also today, a second view on civil commitment for people classified as violent sexual predators.

It's called the death with dignity initiative. Backers call it aid in dying. Opponents call it physician assisted suicide. It would allow terminally ill people to kill themselves with the help of a doctor. What do you call it and why? How will you vote? Also today, President Bush signs into law a mortgage relief bill. Who qualifies? Call with your questions. We'll have answers. Plus, a Spokane newspaper publishes the names of nearly ten thousand people who bought fake high school and college degrees from a Spokane diploma mill. And Governor Gregoire got carded at an Olympia bar and sent home because she didn't have ID. Is the state law too strict?