Governor Schwarzenegger has denied clemency to convicted killer Michael Morales.

You can read the governor’s decision here. But the last paragraph is perhaps the most relevant:

“Nothing in the record or the materials before me compels a grant of clemency. The pain [victim Terri] Winchell’s loved ones have been forced to endure at the hands of Morales is unfathomable as is the brutaility of the acts he perpetrated.”