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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SAN QUENTIN, Calif.  - California prison officials  put three-time murderer Donald Beardslee to death by lethal  injection on Wednesday, in the the first execution in the state  for three years.
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A judge ruled Tuesday that a confessed serial killer &#151; set to become the first inmate executed in New England in 40 years &#151; is mentally competent and can forgo further appeals of his death sentence.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised voters he would govern from the middle, and he did just that in his first end-of-session round of bill signings.
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A 25-year-old man was executed by lethal injection Wednesday for the torture and slaying of a teenager who was forced to drink hydrochloric acid during a robbery of his home. It was the state's first execution in 60 years.
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California's movie star governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he wants to be able to run for president and approves of moves to raise the constitutional ban on foreign-born US citizens holding the highest office.
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MIAMI, Dec. 15 -- Executions by lethal injection were suspended in Florida and ordered revamped in California on Friday, as the chemical method once billed as a more humane way of killing the condemned came under mounting scrutiny over the pain it may cause.
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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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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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On the eve of his execution, the man at the center of one of the 20th century's most notorious crimes was at peace.
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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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A condemned prisoner planned to tell a joke Tuesday as part of his final statement before being executed for the abduction and killing of a couple who lived next door to him.
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Governor Schwarzenegger readies to hit theatres next year.
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California could see its first execution in nearly three years early Wednesday unless a last-minute appeal is granted or if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger grants him clemency.
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California governor Arnold  Schwarzenegger, a citizen of both the United States and  Austria, should be stripped of Austrian citizenship for  allowing a convicted murderer to be executed, an Austrian  politician said.
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The nation's busiest death penalty state executed another inmate Tuesday night, undeterred by a Supreme Court review of whether the lethal injection method most states use is cruel and unusual.
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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.