COMMENTARY: Executions Dreaded Duty For Beebe
Posted: January 29, 2013 at 1:50 a.m.
The gut-wrenching reality of being the last person that takes somebody’s life.” Those are the words Gov. Mike Beebe used in an interview to describe what it’s like to sign a condemned prisoner’s death warrant knowing he is the only person who can commute the sentence.
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Opinion, Pages 5 on 01/29/2013
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