Schwarzenegger Rejects Actors' Pleas to Spare Hatchet Murderer

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has rejected pleas from Hollywood actors to spare the life of a man who chopped up four people with a hatchet.

Such Tinseltown "experts" as Sean Penn, Janeane Garofalo, Danny Glover, Mike Farrell, Richard Dreyfuss, Denzel Washington and Anjelica Huston, some of whom have actually graduated from high school, want murderer Kevin Cooper to be freed or to continue getting taxpayer-supplied room and board, as he has for the past 19 years. Oh, and Jesse Jackson, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis and the International Socialist Organization also want to spare him.

Instead, Cooper is scheduled to die for his vicious crimes early Tuesday at San Quentin.

On Sunday even the notorious 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the same bunch that claims the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional, rejected an appeal.

Courts have noted that there is overwhelming evidence of Cooper's guilt. Even DNA found at the scene implicates him.

In the early 1980s Cooper, a burglar who had escaped from prison, repeatedly used a hatchet and buck knife on Douglas and Peggy Ryen of San Bernardino County, their 10-year-old daughter, Jessica, and Christopher Hughes, her 11-year-old friend. He slit the throat of the Ryens' 8-year-old son, Joshua, but the boy survived the nighttime attack.

"Josh wakes up from the attack in the deathly still bedroom, where the stench of blood was nauseating," his lawyer, Milt Silverman, told the Los Angeles Times.

"He put all four fingers in his neck to stop his bleeding while he was staring closely at his mother - dead, and covered in blood. Josh laid there 11 hours."

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