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Lawyers Call For Clemency For Brain-Damaged Death Row Inmate

HeadlineJan 18, 2005

And in California, lawyers are calling on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to their client, Donald Beardslee, because they have uncovered new evidence that he is suffering from brain damage. He is scheduled to die from lethal injection just after midnight on Wednesday. He would become the first person executed in California in three years.

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