Killer’s Execution Set for Wednesday
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Killer Donald Beardslee will be executed early Wednesday barring decisions in his favor from last-minute appeals or Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s granting of clemency.
At one minute after midnight Wednesday, San Quentin State Prison authorities are scheduled to execute Beardslee by lethal injection. Beardslee’s lawyers claim he suffers from brain maladies that prevented him from thinking clearly when he killed Stacey Benjamin, 19, and Patty Geddling, 23, in 1981.
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