May 3
CALIFORNIA:
An Interview with Kevin CooperTalking Sports from Death Row
Kevin Cooper is a sports fan. Kevin Cooper loves the Steelers. Kevin
Cooper makes his home on death row at the notorious San Quentin
Penitentiary in California. Cooper awaits execution for a crime many
May 3
CALIFORNIA:
Michael Franti Playing San Quentin Prison Concert
Outspoken Anti- recording artist and award-winning documentary filmmaker
Michael Franti will perform an extremely rare San Quentin Prison concert
on Saturday, May 19th at 11 a.m. With a theme of tolerance and
co-existence,
Sept. 27
CALIFORNIA:
Some suffering permissible during execution, judge says
Far removed from San Quentin's death chamber, the unprecedented legal
challenge to California's lethal injection method got under way Tuesday in
a quiet San Jose courtroom as witnesses began to bore into the
Jan. 4
CALIFORNIAimpending execution
Do not execute Clarence Ray Allen, says Secretary General of the Council
of Europe
The death penalty is a brutal and vindictive travesty of justice said
Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, in a statement
issued today.
Following
August 12
CALIFORNIA:
Peterson Told Frey He Loved 'The Shining'
Prosecutors played for jurors a series of telephone calls Scott Peterson
made to his mistress -- including one where he tells her The Shining is
the best movie ever -- in their attempt to show his nonchalance just
days after
Oct. 11
CALIFORNIA:
A Risk-Filled Use of DNA
At first glance, Proposition 69 seems an easy call: The measure, as its
backers argue, would probably help solve more cold crimes by rapidly
expanding the state's existing criminal DNA database. But the measure is
so broadly written that each
