Schwarzenegger Allows Rare California Execution
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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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SAN QUENTIN, Calif.  - California prison officials  put three-time murderer Donald Beardslee to death on Wednesday,  marking the first execution in the state in three years.
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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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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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10/19/04- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is putting his political career at risk. He endorsed a 3-billion-dollar bond measure that would fund human embryonic stem cell research.
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California would become the first state to impose a limit on all greenhouse gas emissions, including those from industrial plants, under a landmark deal reached Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative Democrats.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, despite his gun-toting &quot;Terminator&quot; image, signed a law banning powerful sniper rifles, just after a US federal ban on assault weapons expired.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry commuted the death sentence of a man hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, a rare occurrence in America's most active capital punishment 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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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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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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By DON THOMPSON  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's corrections secretary said Friday that the state will create a commission to review sentencing guidelines for felons, potentially a key step in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to relieve prison overcrowding.
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SAN QUENTIN, Calif.  - California prison officials  put three-time murderer Donald Beardslee to death on Wednesday,  in the first execution in the state in three years.
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A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the execution of a Texas convict scheduled to be put to death for the 1998 killing of his parents, two days after the court said it will consider whether lethal injection violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.