Capital Punishment

"Choked": Economic Parable Exposes Social Mores

What's Your Death Row Last Meal?

James Reynolds/Last SuppersRecreations of condemned inmates' actual last meal requests​I got to thinking about death-row last meal requests last week, which naturally made me think of mine. I don't want to speculate about why I'd be executed. Naturally, I would be being framed. I also asked ... More >>

Dear Texas: If You Must Kill Prisoners, Please Give Them a Last Meal

A typical last meal in Texas. Now with less chicken!​Texas and California don't have a lot in common politically, except for incarceration. Both states love to put people in prison, so much so that we're going to have to let a bunch of ours out soon. Texas has a different means of slightly re ... More >>

George Gascón Won't Seek Death Penalty for German Tourist Killing

San Francisco is rubbing off on him​District Attorney George Gascón might have reached a defining moment in his campaign for DA today after announcing he would not seek the death penalty for the high-profile killing of a German tourist last summer. It's a watershed moment, politically speaking, b ... More >>

Albert Greenwood Brown Execution: Court of Appeal Demands Judge Reconsider Delay

California Department of CorrectionsAlbert Greenwood Brown, convicted rapist and murderer, may live to breathe another day​SF Weekly earlier reported that Albert Greenwood Brown's 9 p.m. Thursday execution would come just three hours before the expiration of one of the drugs that would kill him. T ... More >>

War is Hell

California Department of CorrectionsAlbert Greenwood Brown, convicted rapist and murderer, may live to breathe another day​SF Weekly earlier reported that Albert Greenwood Brown's 9 p.m. Thursday execution would come just three hours before the expiration of one of the drugs that would kill him. T ... More >>

Seattle art rock climax

California Department of CorrectionsAlbert Greenwood Brown, convicted rapist and murderer, may live to breathe another day​SF Weekly earlier reported that Albert Greenwood Brown's 9 p.m. Thursday execution would come just three hours before the expiration of one of the drugs that would kill him. T ... More >>

Suspended Sentence

After Innocence probes life after a wrongful conviction

Snoop Dogg

R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece

Gale Farce

Kevin isn't the only thing Spacey in this overlong death-penalty drama

Recordings

Kevin isn't the only thing Spacey in this overlong death-penalty drama