Subject: Capital Punishment

• Spitzer's Penal Problems

  There are rumblings of reform coming from Sacramento. Reforms aimed at starting to straighten out the state's dysfunctional prison system. The Los Angeles Times reports, "the Senate's top Democrats on Thursday moved toward reforming California's byzantine criminal sentencing system." Unveiling legislation to create a sentencing review commission, Senate leader Don Perata of Oakland and Sen. Gloria Romero of Los Angeles said California should join 16 other states now revisiting the question of

  January 19, 2007

• Over Spitzer's Objection, Gov Delays New Death Chamber

  You've got to wonder how state assemblyman Todd Spitzer--a former Orange County supervisor, prosecutor and LAPD reserve officer--tolerates continual Sacramento BS even within his own Republican Party. McClatchy news reported today that GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger--who oddly still enjoys The Terminator image--"personally asked" officials at San Quentin Prison to delay construction of a new death chamber that was set to premiere this May. Schwarzenegger's excuse? Spitzer--rightly frustrated

  April 20, 2007

• OC White Supremacist Killer Avoids Death Penalty

  Just before lunch today, the jury in the Michael Allan Lamb murder case announced itself "hopelessly deadlocked" on whether the Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squad member deserved the death penalty. The vote was nearly tied after almost three days of deliberating. Six jurors wanted death; five wanted life in prison without the possibility of parole; and one person remained undecided. Lamb kept silent, but studied his fingernails after the decision. Throughout the three-month proceedin

  July 31, 2007

• DA Determined to Send White Supremacist Killer to Death Row

  Prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh announced this morning he will try a second time to send convicted killer Michael Alan Lamb, 33, to San Quentin State Prison's notorious Death Row. An Orange County jury convicted the Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squad hit man in July for the execution-style murder of a fellow gang member and the attempted murder of an undercover Anaheim police officer. After the penalty phase of the trial, the panel heard testimony about Lamb's vicious adult personality (fro

  August 21, 2007

• How Many Public Enemy Number One Death Squaders Can You Squeeze Onto Death Row?

  Billy Joe Johnson, Orange County's most infamous white supremacist and killer, inched closer this week to San Quentin State Prison's Death Row. Deputy District Attorney Ebrahim Baytieh charged Johnson (pictured) with the lying-in-wait 2002 murder of a fellow Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squad member in Anaheim. In July, a jury convicted Michael Alan Lamb and Jacob Anthony Rump for the killing. But during the trial Johnson tried to save his friends from convictions by claiming he alone

  August 24, 2007

• Lamb Chopped: White Supremacist Gets Death

  White supremacist gangster and killer Michael Lamb (pictured) trotted into a heavily guarded Orange County courtroom this afternoon, chuckled with his lawyers and watched quietly as a court clerk announced the jury's verdict: death. But the proceedings, which took less than two minutes, nearly left Senior Deputy District Attorney Ebrahim Baytieh 0-2 in his attempts to give Lamb, a career criminal and member of Public Enemy Number One's (PEN1) Death Squad, the ultimate punishment. A lone, sobbi

  June 11, 2008

• Death Official for PEN1 White Supremacist Killer

  Dana Point's Michael Lamb ditched his menacing shaved head look and entered Judge William Froeberg's 10th floor Santa Ana courtroom this morning with a full, messy head of hair that still couldn't cover the white supremacist tattoos doting his scalp, face, throat and neck. It wasn't like Lamb, a vicious Public Enemy Number One (PEN1) Death Squad killer/drug addict/petty thief/bully, cared what anyone present--including Froeberg or homicide prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh--thought. Well, in fairness

  August 22, 2008

• Good News: Youre Unlikely to Die in a Bloody Rampage!

  September 30, 1999

• When Prison Guards Attack!

  August 22, 2002

• 'When I Read the Article, I Wanted to Kill Myself.'

  July 28, 2005

• Musical Advent Calendar: Snoop Doggy Dogg, et al, 'Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto'

  Death Row Records--co-founded by Dr. Dre and Suge Knight in 1991--was, of course, incredibly influential in the world of west coast rap in the early '90s. And incredibly controversial.But not everything released on the label was quite as provocative as say, "Deep Cover." There was also 1996's Christmas on Death Row album, which boasted songs like opener "Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto"--not to be confused with, but likely inspired by the James Brown song of the same name--by Dat Nigga D

  December 11, 2008

• Good Works

  November 20, 2008

• Ruling and Regulating

  October 30, 2008

• When Gunner Jay Lindberg Killed Thien Minh Ly, Was It Actually a Hate Crime?

  July 17, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] Billy Joe Johnson Tries to Save Pal From Death Row. Plus, Adieu, Buffalo Jim

  May 22, 2008

• [Hits!] Top-Selling Records at Electric Chair, Huntington Beach

  April 10, 2008

• Just a Random Female

  Robbin Brandley’s confessed killer sits on death row. So why don’t her parents consider the case closed?

  November 22, 2007

• Hits!

  Electric Chair
  

  November 15, 2007

• Walk Until They Don't Drop

  September 20, 2007

• Taking Lives

  August 17, 2006

• OC Murderer Escapes Death Row--for Now

  Jury deadlocks on ‘ultimate’ punishment for Michael Lamb

  August 2, 2007

• The 'Good Seed'?

  Defense: Death penalty would be unfair to convicted murderer who loves baseball and his brothers

  July 19, 2007

• Hits!

  Electric Chair

  July 5, 2007

• Hits!

  ELECTRIC CHAIR

  February 15, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  Dec. 13-Dec. 19

  December 21, 2006

• Hits!

  August 31, 2006

• The Year in Letters

  December 29, 2005

• Commie Girl

  December 15, 2005

• Hits!

  December 1, 2005

• HITS!

  May 26, 2005

• No Justice, No Peace of Mind

  January 20, 2005

• The Year the Music Died

  December 30, 2004

• Gordon Dillow Is A Hack

  January 22, 2004

• Nowhere Man

  November 20, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 22, 2003

• Fear and Loathing on Death Row

  March 13, 2003

• A Third Reprieve

  November 21, 2002

• Manila Enveloped in Oklahoma Bombing Case

  April 4, 2002

• Letters

  June 7, 2001

• A Charge Card to Keep

  January 25, 2001

• The Shock is Off

  June 29, 2000

• This weeks featured NFL playoff game: Miami Dolphins (9-7) vs. Jacksonville Jaguars (14-2

  January 20, 2000

• Not Angry No More

  November 25, 1999

• Escape From Death Row!

  September 16, 1999

• Snoop Doggy Dad

  January 21, 1999

• Computer Clemency

  December 3, 1998

• Will An OC Jury Send A Costa Mesa Serial Killer to Death Row?

  Costa Mesa serial killer say he has no remorse​Lisping serial killer Billy Joe Johnson (pictured) walked into Orange County Superior Court today in a seemingly relaxed mood despite the shackles, handcuffs and extra security. An animated, wide-eyed smile appeared on Johnson's prison pale face when he saw his defense lawyer, Michael Molfetta. In court, the 46-year-old white supremacist gang member, Nazi lover and career criminal from Costa Mesa often looks like the guest of honor at a backyard b

  October 28, 2009

• OC Serial Killer Gets His New Home Wish: Death Row

  Billy Joe Johnson says drugs blocked his dreams​On the day he didn't bother to spike his Mohawk (with jailhouse soap) or tuck in his white button down shirt, Costa Mesa serial killer Billy Joe Johnson received the death penalty recommendation from a somber jury of eight men and four women. Johnson accepted the outcome of the hearing, which took less than six minutes, with the same aplomb he's exhibited during the month-long proceedings. The white supremacist gang member of Public Enemy Number

  October 29, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] Killer Billy Joe Johnson Makes His Case for Death Row

  October 29, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  November 5, 2009