Schwarzenegger Allows Rare California Execution

truthpusher

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Tue Jan-18-05 06:49 PM
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Schwarzenegger Allows Rare California Execution

Edited on Tue Jan-18-05 06:57 PM by truthpusher

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7361154

Schwarzenegger Allows Rare California Execution

Tue Jan 18, 2005 06:10 PM ET

By Adam Tanner

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Citing "grisly and senseless killings," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declined on Tuesday to grant clemency to murderer Donald Beardslee, setting the stage for California's first execution in three years.

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Beardslee's attorneys argue he was duped by accomplices and was suffering from mental illness aggravated by brain injuries when in 1981 he shot Stacey Benjamin, 19, and choked and slashed the throat of Patty Geddling, 23, in California.

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Beardslee's attorneys had asked the governor to commute his sentence to life in prison without parole. In a detailed five-page response, Schwarzenegger detailed the brutality of Beardslee's three killings and rejected the argument that the killer was mentally impaired.

"We are not dealing here with a man who is so generally affected by his impairment that he cannot tell the difference between right and wrong," Schwarzenegger said.

more:

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7361154

msmbc article on same topic:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6840553/

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Cooley Hurd

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Tue Jan-18-05 06:54 PM
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1. Could you imagine being on death row waiting for a clemency call...

...and the governor is Arnold-friggin-Schwarzenegger?

He's fucked, in other words...:(

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Cha

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Tue Jan-18-05 06:54 PM
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2. Like the terminator is going

to grant clemency.

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rinsd

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Tue Jan-18-05 06:58 PM
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3. Not surprising...I think the last Gov to grant clemency was Wilson. (nt)

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American Renaissance

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Wed Jan-19-05 09:30 AM
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10. Actually it was Reagan and it was in 1966.

There is no executive clemency in California, it is too important to have the appearance of being tough on crime.

Although, Gov. Gangbang will never work in Hollywood again.

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Ironpost

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Tue Jan-18-05 07:14 PM
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4. My question gropenator is

do you know right from wrong, didn't think so. spos (sorry piece of shit)

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Tue Jan-18-05 07:15 PM
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5. "Remember when I said you would be the last one to die?"

"I lied."

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theresistance

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Tue Jan-18-05 08:15 PM
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7. Hasta la vista, baby...

Edited on Tue Jan-18-05 08:15 PM by theresistance

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VegasWolf

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Tue Jan-18-05 08:17 PM
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8. Don't cry like a girly-man! n/t

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daleo

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Wed Jan-19-05 12:48 AM
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9. "I'm going to puuuuump you up!"

I don't agree with capital punishment, but I couldn't resist that SNL/Gropey reference.

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leesa

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Wed Jan-19-05 10:03 AM
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11. This man was retarded. Even the warden thought he should be reprieved.

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DemonFighterLives

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Wed Jan-19-05 10:16 AM
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12. Gropenator Just following in his hero's footsteps

He has a long way to go to catch up with Der Fuhrer and his Big Texas Record.
Next thing you know he'll be wearing cowboy boots.

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Pegleg Thd

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Wed Jan-19-05 11:38 AM
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13. What a disgusting thought

the #3 Nazi in cowboy boots!!!

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