Subject: Capital Punishment

• High Court Agrees: Parkus Is Too Dim to Die

  April 19, 2007

• Edwin Hall Speaks

  August 1, 2007

• Defense Attorney Says Phill Kline Has Screwed Up Edwin Hall Case

  July 9, 2008

• Death Row Records Auctioned Off

  Oh, Sugar Bear, how the mighty have fallen! In addition to watching himself get knocked out during a street fight on YouTube, the oft-incarcerated Marion "Suge" Knight now gets to watch his label, Death Records, vanish from his cold, calloused hands. Variety magazine reported that Wide Awake Entertainment bought Death Row Records for $18 million during an auction in Los Angeles last Thursday. Last July, another label, Global Music, had agreed to buy Sugar Bear's gangster baby for $24 million.

  January 20, 2009

• Letters from the week
  of June 4

  June 4, 2009

• The Give-a-Shit List

  This week: Make sure your tax dollars don't get swallowed in the endless abyss of discontent between the City Council and Mayor Mark Funkhouser, catch a ride with the ACLU to short-circuit the death penalty and get a personal performance from a local band to help out your friendly community radio station.

  February 16, 2009

• Letters from the week
  of May 21

  May 21, 2009

• Splattered

  Will Death Sentence bring life to the revenge genre?

  August 30, 2007

• Aceyalone

  June 15, 2006

• Too Dim to Die?

  Nadia Pflaum

  November 10, 2005

• It's Sandersman!

  November 10, 2005

• David Allan Coe

  September 15, 2005

• Blood Simple

  Killing a retarded inmate isn’t that hard — not if you have a cooperative psychiatrist.

  June 9, 2005

• Springtime for Hitler

  Der Führer was a dancing fool.

  October 7, 2004

• Rush

  Sunday, June 13, at Verizon Amphitheater.

  June 10, 2004

• So Long, Joe

  While Joe Armine waits to die, Missouri courts won't admit they could have been wrong.

  July 4, 2002

• Various Artists

  If I Had a Song ... The Songs of Pete Seeger (Appleseed)

  May 30, 2002

• The Heinous and the Cruel

  Kansas courts try to decide exactly when killings are 'atrocious.'

  February 21, 2002

• Mumia Abu-Jamal

  One Seventy-Five Progress Drive (Alternative Tentacles)

  August 9, 2001

• No Escape

  Lucinda Devlin and Stephen Tourlentes rattle some cages.

  August 2, 2001

• Preaching to the Deserted

  Reverend Tom Neely knows the street -- and the political power that can come from it.

  September 14, 2000

• Death Row Records

  Steve Earle's lyrics might have mellowed somewhat, but the songwriter still speaks with candor about capitol punishment, his label, and Napster.

  July 27, 2000

• Nader-ing nabobs of positivism

  Ralph Nader ain't perfect, but he's saying some right things and thinking down the political road.

  June 29, 2000

• Breach of the peace

  Mike McCormack and Sarah Viets practiced their American right of peaceful protest -- and got arrested.

  June 22, 2000

• Debora Green back in court

  May 25, 2000

• Rising SUN

  Local activists will take a stand for social justice at Volker Park on Saturday.

  May 11, 2000

• The Men to Call

  Charged with a serious crime? Low on funds? Kent Gipson and Sean O'Brien are the guys to call.

  April 27, 2000

• Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

  February 24, 2000

• Sinner and saint

  January 13, 2000

• Dennis Skillicorn could be Missouri's first execution since 2005

  Capital attorneys with the Public Interest Litigation Clinic say they expect the Missouri Supreme Court to announce an execution date for Dennis Skillicorn, a 49-year-old inmate at the Potosi Correctional Center, of May 20, 2009. Skillicorn's previous execution date, August 27, 2008, was stayed after Skillicorn asserted that Potosi's warden was interfering with his council's attempts to interview prison staff in order to present a thorough request for clemency to the governor.Skillicorn and Alle

  April 20, 2009

• Missouri is about to execute Dennis Skillicorn. The state’s death penalty may not outlive him very long.

  May 14, 2009

• Update on Missouri's death penalty study: It's alive!

  Exciting times in the Missouri legislature: H.B. 484, a bill written to create a commission to study the state's death penalty, passed by a surprisingly large margin in a 127-31 vote, after the 2-year moratorium component was removed. Now it goes to the Senate for a vote -- if they can get to it by Friday when the session ends.According to a source watching today's proceedings, H.B. 484 is no more -- it's now bill sausage. "It got tacked onto another piece of legislation -- at least that's how I

  May 13, 2009

• Who gets clemency in Missouri?

  Courtesy of Missouri Department of CorrectionsDennis Skillicorn has been working his butt off to repay society for the debts of his crimes. But the last death row inmate to be granted clemency in Missouri didn't have to do anything at all -- he was spared thanks to divine intervention.Darrell Mease was on death row for a brutal triple homicide he committed in 1988. He'd staked out the road leading to the home of Lloyd Lawrence, his mentor in the meth-manufacturing business, and killed Lawrence,

  May 15, 2009

• Hard Line

  May 28, 2009

• Letters from the week
  of May 28

  May 28, 2009

• Dennis Skillicorn's widow reacts to the halting of Missouri executions

  Just a little over a month after the state ended the life of Dennis Skillicorn by lethal injection, executions are again on hold in Missouri. Incoming Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice William Ray Price Jr. told the The Associated Press yesterday that he didn't expect the Court to schedule any executions while the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals weighs an appeal on behalf of death row inmate Reginald Clemons that questions the constitutionality of Missouri's lethal injection protocol.The st

  June 25, 2009

• Calling all pro-death penalty folks

  Michael Anthony TaylorTonight, the AdHoc Group Against Crime hosts the fourth installment of its series on the Abolishment of the Death Penalty. The group invited representatives from Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, the mother of former death row inmate Michael Anthony Taylor, and a man falsely imprisoned on death row for 17 years.The AdHoc Group is officially anti-death penalty, but they're welcoming all points of view and are going as far as to encourage pro-capital punishment folks

  July 14, 2009

• Dr. Dre's The Chronic to Get Re-Lit

  Dr. Dre's The Chronic will be re-released on September 1 as The Chronic Re-Lit, according to MTV. This is all Death Row's doing, and according to the article, Dre wasn't involved at all. I suppose that's why we're getting this before Detox. ​Seriously, it's been a decade since The Chronic 2001. I'll take an album once a decade if Detox manages to live up to those records, but if we get another Aftermath after all of this (including a Dr. Pepper commercial), I'm gonna be pissed. The Chron

  August 20, 2009