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Subject: Capital Punishment

  • News of the Hour -- The Lethal Injection Cocktail, Mike Webb Found Dead, Ted Nugent Found Irritating

    July 3, 2007
  • Tupac's Fam to Broke Death Row: Get Off My Nuts!

    July 24, 2007
  • Samples

    August 23, 1995
  • Death Penalty DA Vows End of the Line for Gay Grifter Murder Suspects

    Rod PachecoRiverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco, a former death penalty prosecutor who ran for office on a law-and-order ticket, vowed he would end a purported gay grifter crime spree carried out by a band of San Francisco murder suspects. Sometime boyfriends Kaushal Niroula, 27, and Daniel Garcia, 26, along with alleged coconspirators David Replogle, 60, a San Francisco lawyer, and Russell Manning, 67, a San Francisco art broker, have  been charged with capital murder in connecti

    March 20, 2009
  • Alleged SF Con Man Possessed By Supernatural Evil, Attorney Claims

    Lawyers say the darndest things... Kaushal Niroula, 27, the alleged ringleader of a group of purported San Francisco con men facing capital murder charges in Palm Springs isn't merely a criminal, says a Hawaii attorney representing a woman claiming to be one of Niroula's victims. Rather, Niroula is an earthly vessel for supernatural forces of evil, said Stephen Shaw, who is representing Megumi Hisamatsu, a Japanese woman who has claimed in a San Francisco federal lawsuit that Niroula

    March 24, 2009
  • Recordings

    March 13, 1996
  • Be Like Mike

    June 4, 2008
  • Wear Orange

    March 5, 2008
  • War is Hell

    September 12, 2007
  • Breaking Down Walls

    A liberal intellectual and a right-winger on Death Row discover they have much in common

    April 25, 2007
  • Seattle art rock climax

    February 14, 2007
  • In Pen and Ink

    They are unschooled, undisciplined, and often unpopular, but it’s outsider artists like the convict who drew this who can sometimes shape mainstream culture

    December 27, 2006
  • No Justice, No Peace ... Whatever

    In the country’s putative activist capital, all the protests and rallies may do more to sow apathy than draw people to the cause.

    July 12, 2006
  • Suspended Sentence

    After Innocence probes life after a wrongful conviction

    January 18, 2006
  • The Witness

    January 26, 2005
  • Snoop Dogg

    December 8, 2004
  • Lucifer, Arisen

    A quintessential San Francisco story, starring charismatic musician/murderer Bobby BeauSoleil*

    *with underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, cult leader Charles Manson, Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, and the Straight Satans motorcycle gang in suppo

    November 17, 2004
  • Live to Tell

    Even big-name stars can't overpower the stories of exonerated death row inmates

    December 10, 2003
  • Dreams Deferred

    November 19, 2003
  • San Quentin Blues

    The prison guards' union angrily ripped the rug from under the governor in February

    April 2, 2003
  • Life in Hell

    March 5, 2003
  • Gale Farce

    February 19, 2003
  • Poet of the Fallen World

    How an S.F. theater troupe helped turn a reclusive novelist into a full-fledged playwright

    February 19, 2003
  • Career Noir

    Pamela Olsen once planned parties for Pacific Heights matrons. Now she interviews prostitutes and murderers as a private eye.

    July 24, 2002
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy

    July 25, 2001
  • Dead Woman Walking

    June 20, 2001
  • A Walk in the Dark

    The rest of the country is re-appraising the death penalty; California sues to keep a minister from comforting those facing execution

    October 25, 2000
  • Dead Head

    Mr. Death

    February 9, 2000
  • South to the Future

    Mumia Abu-Jamal Changes Name, Urges Supporters to Expand Campaign

    October 6, 1999
  • Dead Man Not Praying

    The state wants to deny religious counsel immediately before executions. But why?

    February 3, 1999
  • Night + Day

    May 13, 1998
  • Unspun

    July 23, 1997
  • Shouldn't We Just Kill This Dog?

    June 11, 1997
  • Recordings

    December 4, 1996
  • Letters

    December 4, 1996
  • Sister of Mercy

    January 10, 1996
  • Recordings

    November 15, 1995
  • Hard Labour

    July 26, 1995
  • S.F. Gay Grifters No Longer Face Death Penalty in Palm Springs Case, Prosecutor Says

    Kaushal NiroulaFour San Franciscan alleged con men accused in Palm Springs of robbing and killing a 74-year-old retiree can breathe easier following a meeting last week with prosecutors, according to City News Service ace Jessica E. Davis. Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco had filed charges that, in the event of a guilty verdict, could have led to the death penalty for Kaushal Niroula and his on-again, off-again lovers Daniel Garcia and David Replogle, a San Francisco attorney. Also

    July 1, 2009
  • New DNA Evidence in Old Homicide Case Points to the 'Night Stalker'

    Anna McCarthyDid you hang around the 'Loin in 1984? Does this face ring a bell?​On April 10, 1984, San Francisco police found 9-year-old Mei Leung's dead body in the basement area of the residential hotel at 765 O'Farrell Street where she lived with her family. Her 8-year-old brother was the last one to see her alive -- they had walked home from a friend's house together just before the slaying. Police never found her killer. Now, two-and-a-half decades later, the SFPD say they have new DNA ev

    October 22, 2009