USA: (California): Death penalty / Legal concern, Donald Jay Beardslee (m)

Donald Beardslee, white, aged 61, is scheduled to be executed in California on 19 January 2005. He was sentenced to death in 1984 for the murder in 1981 of Paula Geddling. A recent examination has revealed that he suffers from severe brain damage, which the jurors who sentenced him to death did not know.

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