Arnold Schwarzenegger Denies Clemency for Michael Morales

Schwarzenegger today denied clemency for Michael Morales, who is scheduled to be executed at San Quentin Prison on Tuesday for the murder of a young Lodi woman 25 years ago. California Govenor Arnold Schwarzenegger will not spare Michael Morales, who is scheduled to be executed at San Quentin Prison on Tuesday for the murder of a young Lodi woman 25 years ago.

Lawyers for Morales described the 46-year-old Death Row inmate as a model prisoner and a "deeply repentant, sorrowful Christian, who has accepted full responsibility for a terrible crime that will haunt him forever." Morales was convicted of raping and murdering 17-year-old Terri Winchell. According to prosecution testimony, he choked her from behind with a belt while she sat in a car on a remote road, then beat her on the head with a hammer and stabbed her with a knife. Morales' lawyers do not deny he fatally beat and stabbed Winchell. They contend the Stockton man was sentenced to death only because of jailhouse informant Bruce Samuelson's testimony that Morales admitted planning the murder, bragged about it, referred to Winchell in vulgar terms and solicited the murders of witnesses. But Schwarzenegger said he was unconvinced the defense attorneys' assertions.

"Nothing in the record or the materials before me compels a grant of clemency," Schwarzenegger wrote. "The pain Ms. Winchell's loved ones have been forced to endure at the hands of Morales is unfathomable as is the brutality of the acts he perpetrated. gameshout 

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