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Arnold pushes his first execution Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.thisislondon.com/til/jsp/modules/Article/print.jsp?itemId=9064215 http://www.thisislondon.com/til/jsp/modules/Article/print.jsp?itemId=9064215 This is LONDON 10/02/04 - News and city section Arnie the Terminator By James Langton, Evening Standard, in New York Arnold Schwarzenegger is today locked in a legal battle after ordering his first execution as governor of California. The actor turned politician refused to grant clemency to a man convicted of four murders. The Terminator star said the case against Kevin Cooper was "overwhelming" and added: "His is not a case for clemency." It will be the first execution in California in two years and is the first such case Schwarzenegger has had to deal with. But in a last-minute intervention, the US Supreme Court ruled there should be a stay of the execution, which had been scheduled to take place at midnight tonight. The case has attracted massive controversy in America, where Cooper's case has been taken up by leading civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson, who says that 46-year-old Cooper is suffering because he is "black and poor". Jackson said: "This is not a case of seeking mercy on the philosophy of opposition to the death penalty. The outstanding information deserves a hearing." Cooper was convicted in 1985 of murdering two adults and two children with a knife and hatchet in southern California. He has always denied the killings. Anti-death penalty activists demonstrated in Schwarzenegger's home town in Austria and outside the gubernatorial mansion in California as he announced his determination to go ahead with the execution. The case will be considered by 11 judges in a week's time. Schwarzenegger has ordered state lawyers to fight any decision to overturn the execution order. Cooper's lawyers accuse the police of planting DNA evidence and say other evidence that could have proved his innocence was ignored.

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