Noteworthy pleas to stop executions
The scheduled executions of doubler murderer Donald Beardslee in California next week and of serial killer Michael Ross in Connecticut the following week continue to produce amazing developments and stories.
From California, this article details that a “former San Quentin State Prison warden and a juror who voted for Donald Beardslee’s execution are urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to commute his sentence to life without parole.”
From Connecticut, this article reports that the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state’s Board of Pardons and Parole in an effort to force the Board to hold a hearing to consider commuting Ross’ death sentence to life in prison.
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