Schwarzenegger allows execution
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California executes a murderer in the first death sentence carried out under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Redwood City, California. KAZINFORM quotes CNN -- Laci Peterson&#39;s stepfather said Scott Peterson &quot;got what he deserved&quot; when the jury in his murder trial recommended Monday that he die by lethal injection for killing his 27-year-old pregnant wife.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is due to endorse John McCain's bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned back a plea for mercy for a man convicted of murdering two women in 1981 over a drug deal, clearing the way for California's first execution in three years.
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A federal appeals court issued a stay of execution Monday for a convicted killer who had stopped appealing his death sentence and was set to be die in the electric chair.
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By Kevin Yamamura, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 15--Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called Thursday for a canal to transfer water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, marking the first time he has expressed support for the historically controversial project.
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A federal appeals court on Monday opened the way for Missouri to resume executing condemned inmates, ruling the state's lethal injection procedure is not cruel and unusual punishment.
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday that he had appealed a court decision that struck down the controversial violent video game law in his state.
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Activists in Arnold Schwarzenegger's country of birth demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy in Vienna on Wednesday to protest the California governor's decision to allow the state's first execution in three years.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday by lethal injection, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court said it will decide whether that method violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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The text of a speech by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, as prepared for delivery Tuesday at the Republican National Convention:
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man who spent 25 years on Texas death row was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 1980 murder after prison officials had to carry him to the death chamber.
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A man who shot his wife to death because she wanted to leave him was executed Wednesday, the first Ohio inmate put to death using new injection guidelines adopted because the last execution was plagued with problems.
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Gov. Bob Riley stayed the execution of a contract killer Thursday, hours before it was to have been carried out, so the inmate could be put to death using a new lethal injection formula the governor had ordered just a day earlier.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to his Austrian hometown Sunday for the first time since severing official ties with the city two years ago after a flap over the death penalty.
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IONE, Calif. -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed on Monday to clean up the state prison system, saying he and his team will do whatever it takes to end the corruption and mismanagement plaguing the troubled Department of Corrections.