Donald Beardslee
As I stated at the beginning of my last entry, this case too involves an execution. It is only by coincidence really that they both took place in California. I will warn you that this case is a bit confusing and while the case in which sent Donald Beardslee to his execution involved several people. As usual I tried to find information on each of the participants of the crime and I found a little but when an execution is involved it is difficult to find anything beyond that a lot of the time. The strange thing here however is that I did not come across an appeal by Beardslee but I did find one from one of the other participant and those help in giving more information about the crime itself and was very informational. Donald Beardslee was born in 1944 and when he was of age he joined the Air Force and became an aircraft mechanic. In 1965 he and another airman were caught trying to steal a car. He was sentenced (although I do not know for how long) to a work farm in Minnes...