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pquot;a href=http://nwanews.com/adg/National/247223Beebe a cautious death-penalty backer/a,quot; is Seth Blomeley#39;s report in the Sunday Arkansas Democrat Gazette./pp style=margin-left: 40px;Gov. Mike Beebe said he favors the death penalty but doesn#39;t like his role in carrying it out. /pp style=margin-left: 40px;quot;I have a lot of misgiving, but I#39;m going to enforce it because it#39;s the law,quot; Beebe said. quot;Someone asked me what#39;s the worst part about being governor. It#39;s to call a widow or a mother of an Arkansas soldier killed. Fortunately, after my first year in office, that#39;s slowed down. The second-hardest part is that I#39;ve set three executions. That was hard.quot; /pp style=margin-left: 40px;Beebe said he reads the entire trial transcript before signing an execution warrant...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).