Subject: Capital Punishment

• LIFE OR DEATH DECISION

  August 12, 1992

• A Bride of Conviction

  November 23, 1995

• Doin' Time at the Blue Mist

  Prison-adjacent motel is Florence's funkiest, bar none

  January 11, 1996

• A Quiet Voice Against the Death Penalty

  Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

  October 3, 1996

• Live by the Gun . . .

  Tupac Shakur's murder leaves behind a formidable legacy--and disturbing questions

  October 3, 1996

• Letters

  October 17, 1996

• Reeling and Dealing

  "Suge" Knight is behind bars, Tha Doggfather is on the shelves, and the future of Death Row Records hangs in the balance

  November 28, 1996

• Who's the Man?

  With Suge Knight in prison, onetime receptionist Norris Anderson is now the big man on Death Row

  March 27, 1997

• Don't Leave Homies Without It

  March 27, 1997

• Flashes

  May 22, 1997

• Curtains for Ceja

  As a teen, Jose Ceja killed two people and was sentenced to die. He spent 23 years on death row as a model prisoner, and then his sentencing judge admitted he'd made a mistake. But the state of Arizona killed him anyway.

  February 5, 1998

• Letters

  February 26, 1998

• Death Wish

  County prosecutors seeking capital punishment for Tovrea killer

  March 26, 1998

• Butch Harrod and the Tovrea Kid

  Heiress's hit man keeps mum about plot that landed him on death row

  June 4, 1998

• Dead Man Balking

  Death row inmate wants to finish a 100-year robbery sentence before he's executed

  October 1, 1998

• Near-Death Experience

  October 29, 1998

• One Plays, the Other Doesn't

  Four Walls collapses, but Black Flag's worth saluting in PlayWright's Theatre doubleheader

  December 10, 1998

• Death Wish

  Pending court ruling delays Robert Comer's fate

  December 26, 2002

• Letters

  Letters from the week of June 5, 2003

  June 5, 2003

• Reconstruction Ring

  June 26, 2003

• Letters

  Letters from the week of July 10, 2003

  July 10, 2003

• Letters

  Letters from the week of August 7, 2003

  August 7, 2003

• 2008 Death Penalty Stats Prove Old Man Nash is Hardly the Only One Avoiding Execution

  The folks at the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington D.C. sent us their informative year-end report in the aftermath of our recent piece on 93-year-old Viva Leroy Nash, the senior member of death row here in Arizona and nationwide. It shows that U.S. executions are down more than 60 pecent compared to nine years ago.  (At left is a photo of murderer Robert Comer, who died by lethal injection in Florence on May 22, 2007, the only legal execution in A

  December 16, 2008

• Andrew Thomas Cuts a Plea Deal with a Neo-Nazi, County Democrats Reorganize, and a Phony UPS Guy Delivers Redflex Ticket

  December 18, 2008

• Nation’s Oldest Death Row Inmate Will Never Be Executed

  December 4, 2008

• Splattered

  Talking torture, politics, and not-so-sweet revenge with James Wan

  August 30, 2007

• Letters From Hell

  Robert Comer wrote to New Times from prison for years, predicting recently that his soul would be in the real hell "soon enough"

  May 24, 2007

• Sympathy for the Devil

  A con man may be smart enough to escape death row by pretending he’s mentally retarded. Are we dumb enough to buy it?

  April 26, 2007

• Dead Man Talkin'

  A murderer tells New Times that he wants desperately to die, but a U.S. appeals court won't let the state kill him

  October 5, 2006

• Live After Death

  The posthumous Tupac projects keep on comin'

  January 12, 2006

• Blood and Money

  Questions remain about whether a death row prisoner acted alone in the 1988 murder of heiress Jeanne Tovrea

  October 20, 2005

• About Face

  Ray Krone's got it all. A new look. Money. Problem is, he can't seem to forgive those who screwed up and put him on Arizona's death row

  April 21, 2005

• Katie & Jordy's Excellent Adventure

  The incredibly true story of two Tempe women and the photograph that helped convict Scott Peterson

  January 13, 2005

• Blood on their hands

  October 14, 2004

• Dora's Darlings

  Prisoners are precious to Dora Schriro, Arizona's new corrections chief

  June 3, 2004

• Off with their heads

  Arizona's Juries are proving tougher than judges under a new murder sentencing system

  June 26, 2003

• Death Road

  Ray Krone is America's new anti-death-penalty poster boy

  May 22, 2003

• Dead Men Talking

  The ACLU is fighting a state law that keeps death row inmates off the Web

  September 12, 2002

• Dead Man Talking

  Killer Robert Comer is pleased with a decision that may end his life

  June 27, 2002

• Arizona's Worst Criminal

  Infamous killer Robert Comer now says he's the one who should die

  May 2, 2002

• Harrod for Hire

  Conviction of Tovrea heiress hit man upheld by Court

  August 2, 2001

• Janet Clams Up

  AG Napolitano turns down her 60 Minutes of fame

  March 15, 2001

• Waco Brothers

  Electric Waco Chair (Bloodshot)

  September 28, 2000

• Dead End Job

  In Errol Morris' Mr. Death docu, it's all in the execution

  February 24, 2000

• DRESSED TO KILL

  April 8, 1992

• UPDATE: Donnie Delahanty To Death Row In `Senseless' Murder Of Beloved Phoenix Cop

  Donnie Delahanty, a dumb-ass kid from a dysfunctional family who killed a cop in 2005 for the hell of it, was ordered to death row earlier today.  Delahanty (shown here in a 2005 photo) stared straight ahead as a court clerk for Superior Court Judge Warren Granville read the jury's verdict. Earlier, the same panel convicted the 22-year-old of first-degree murder and other charges in the May 2005 death of veteran Phoenix police officer David Uribe. Delahanty shot the 48-year-ol

  May 27, 2009

• U.S. Appeals Court Berates Lawyer-Turned-Judge’s Work in the “Going to See Santa” Murder Case

  June 11, 2009

• Canadian Newspaper Retraces How Local Murderer was Spared Death Penalty in Mean, Old Arizona

  Image: Arizona Department of Corrections Ten years ago, a team of Canadian defense lawyers and diplomats pressed then-Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley to spare the life of a man convicted of murdering an elderly Valley woman. Romley relented, deciding not to seek the death penalty against Paul Pilipow (pictured) and persuading the victim's family to see it his way, says an article in today's Canada's Leader-Post newspaper. The paper is on its second day of a look into the

  July 20, 2009

• "Retarded" German Killer Rudi Apelt Sentenced (Again)

  Arizona Department of Corrections Michael Apelt (left) remains on death row, but Rudi Apelt can't be executedRudi Apelt, a German national whose brutal murder of a local woman led to a death sentence in 1989, got a reprieve from death row in May after his lawyers convinced a judge that he is mentally retarded.But Apelt won't be getting out of prison anytime soon. Yesterday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sylvia Arellano ruled that Apelt's sentences for murder and conspiracy should r

  July 22, 2009

• Prosecutors Pursue Death Penalty for Three Nativists Who Killed Father and 9-Year Old on U.S.-Mexico Border

  Shawna Forde​Looks like our nativist cover-girl Shawna Forde and two others could get the death penalty for their roles in the murder of a man and his 9-year old daughter during an Arivaca home invasion earlier this year. Deputy Pima County attorney Kellie Johnson announced yesterday that she'd filed a notice on Monday to seek the death penalty for Forde, Jason E. Bush and Albert R. Gaxiola. The three are accused of forcing their way into the home of Raul Junior Flores dressed as law enf

  August 14, 2009