Right Thinking From The Left Coast
"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Termination
by Lee

Following up on this post, the Governator has succeeded in his first termination.

Last-minute court appeals rejected and clemency vigorously denied by the governor, Donald Beardslee was executed early this morning, 24 years after he confessed to the slayings of two Bay Area women.

As about 300 opponents of the death penalty held a vigil outside the prison, Beardslee, 61, was strapped to a gurney and injected with a fatal cocktail of drugs.

In an extraordinarily detailed statement Tuesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said: “Nothing in his petition or the record of his case convinces me that he did not understand the gravity of his actions or that these heinous murders were wrong.”

Shortly after the governor’s rejection, the U.S. Supreme Court without comment denied Beardslee’s application for a stay. The decisions cleared the way for Beardslee’s execution at 12:01 this morning, the state’s 11th execution since voters reinstated the death penalty in 1978 and the first under the Schwarzenegger administration.

Beardslee refused a special final meal and had regular prison fare of chili macaroni, salad and cake.

Yummy.  I hope he choked on it.

Posted by Lee on 01/19/05 at 01:00 AM in Cullyforneah  • (1) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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