Capital Punishment

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 Ter ... More >>

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; f ... More >>

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 murd ... More >>

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 lef ... More >>

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 v ... More >>

When Prison Guards Attack!

In Anaheim, screws say screw you to prison privatizers

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

In Anaheim, screws say screw you to prison privatizers

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

In Anaheim, screws say screw you to prison privatizers

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

In Anaheim, screws say screw you to prison privatizers

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Walk Until They Don't Drop

Walk to Stop Executions

Taking Lives

Coyote on a Fence gets all nuancey about capital punishment

OC Murderer Escapes Death Row--for Now

Jury deadlocks on ‘ultimate’ punishment for Michael Lamb

The 'Good Seed'?

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

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Electric Chair

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Diary of a Mad County

Dec. 13-Dec. 19

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The Year the Music Died

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Nowhere Man

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Diary of a Mad County

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Fear and Loathing on Death Row

Death Letters explores injustice of capital punishment

A Third Reprieve

One of OCs most notorious death-row inmates wants to be sparedagain

Manila Enveloped in Oklahoma Bombing Case

One of OCs most notorious death-row inmates wants to be sparedagain

Letters

One of OCs most notorious death-row inmates wants to be sparedagain

A Charge Card to Keep

The overgrown frat boy youll now call Mr. President

Escape From Death Row!

The falland possible rise againof LBC hip-hop

Computer Clemency

Net serves death-penalty foes well

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] Killer Billy Joe Johnson Makes His Case for 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 ... More >>

Judge to Costa Mesa White Supremacist: "You Shall Suffer the Death Penalty"

Serial killer before he inked two Nazi SS tats over his throat​It took almost 12 minutes for Superior Court Judge Frank F. Fasel to summarize Billy Joe Johnson's extensive rap sheet and mention a few mitigating factors before finding that the Costa Mesa-bred white supremacist gangster's 30-year sp ... More >>

"The Exonerated" Questions Justice, the Death Penalty... Society

​Irony abounds in The Exonerated, a dark, riveting collection of monologues delivered by six wrongly convicted Americans who rotted in various Death Rows before some stroke of luck, fortune or divine providence sprang them from their dungeons. But the real irony is that those who most need to wit ... More >>

OC is a Killer County

Have a seat; this could take a while.​Serial killer Rodney Alcala received the death sentence for the third time in as many decades today. Could sentence number three mean he'll be mainlining the state's death-cocktail sometime soon? Hardly.

Tanya Nelson Irks Judge Frank F. Fasel, Who Sends Double-Killer to Death Row

Death row bound Nelson: I'm innocent!​Retiring Frank F. Fasel is the type of no-nonsense Orange County judge who appreciates people who make their points quickly. But Fasel wasn't impressed by Tanya Jaime Nelson's pithy pre-sentencing message designed to keep herself off California's notorious dea ... More >>

Hilbert Pineil Thomas Faces Death Penalty in Double Murder at Stanton Sales Office

​Hilbert Pineil Thomas, a 39-year-old Garden Grove resident accused of killing a mobile home salesman and his secretary in Stanton in 2009, will face the death penalty, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced today.Thomas, who is being held without bail on two felony counts of ... More >>

[UPDATED] Armando Macias Faces Death Penalty for Bizarre Family Murder Plot

David Montemayor​UPDATE, MARCH 28, 9:34 A.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) today goes for a third death penalty conviction and sixth and final conviction overall in the 2002 murder of a Buena Park man that was set in motion by his sister, who was jealous he was being handed ... More >>

[UPDATED with Conviction:] Armando Macias Faces Death Penalty for Bizarre Family Murder Plot

Courtesy of OCDAArmando Macias​UPDATE, APRIL 21, 5:56 P.M.: A jury in Santa Ana today found Armando Macias guilty of murder--a conviction that could bring the 35-year-old Lancaster gang banger the death penalty.Macias was part of the family murder plot of businessman David Montemayor, 44, of Buena ... More >>

[UPDATED with Sentence:] Armando Macias: DEATH!

Courtesy of OCDAArmando Macias​UPDATE, MAY 19, 6:08 P.M.: A jury today recommended that gang member Armando Macias, 35, of Lancaster, receive the death penalty for his role in a bizarre family murder plot in 2002.It was Macias who "executed" 44-year-old David Montemayor, who was fleeing after bri ... More >>

[BREAKING:] State Supreme Court Affirms Death Penalty for John Famalaro, Killer of 23-year-old Woman Kept in Cold Storage

​The California Supreme Court has confirmed the death penalty for John Famalaro, the phony cop convicted of killing Denise Huber, who disappeared on her way home to Newport Beach from a Morrissey concert in 1991, and keeping the 23-year-old's body in cold storage until it was discovered in Arizona ... More >>

Ruben Gaitan, Santa Ana Murderer from Case That Helped Lead to State Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird's Recall, Loses Latest Parole Bid

Ramos in '79​Way back in 1979, Ruben Gaitan was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison and his buddy Marcelino Ramos received the death penalty for shooting two workers execution-style in a Santa Ana Taco Bell's freezer room. One died.Ramos, who told the pair "Say your prayers" before pulli ... More >>

[UPDATED with Judge's Affirmation:] Armando Macias: DEATH!

Courtesy of OCDAArmando Macias​UPDATE, SEPT. 1, 1:26 P.M.: Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno today affirmed the death sentence for gang member Armando Macias, the triggerman in a bizarre family murder plot in 2002.A jury that convicted Macias in April for his role in the slaying followed up ... More >>

William Charles Payton, Who Still Sits on Death Row for 1980 Rape-Murder, Loses Latest Appeal

CDCPayton​William Charles Payton raped and murdered Pamela Montgomery in the early morning hours of May 26, 1980, stabbing her 12 times, six of the wounds in a line from Montgomery's stomach to her groin. After that he repeatedly stabbed Montgomery's Garden Grove boarding house landlady, Patricia ... More >>

Jason Russell Richardson Barks "I'm Innocent" Before Getting Death for Killing Tustin Home Depot Manager

​"I didn't kill anybody, I'm innocent!" Jason Russell Richardson blurted out in court Monday.Tell it to the judge.Actually, Richardson did, and Orange County Superior Court Judge William Froeberg responded by sentencing the Oceanside 41-year-old to die for the 2007 murder of a Tustin Home Depot ma ... More >>

[UPDATED with Continuance:] Gregory Matthew Miley, Accomplice of "Freeway Killer" William Bonin, Seeks Parole

Miley in '80​UPDATE, NOV. 30, 2:07 P.M.: Realizing that parole would be denied, "Freeway Killer" accomplice Gregory Matthew Miley agreed to a three-year continuance of his request until 2014.The 50-year-old is serving a 25 years to life prison sentence in Corcoran for the kidnappings, sexual assau ... More >>

Kenneth Clair, On Death Row For Killing Santa Ana Woman In the 80s, Wants To Fire His Lawyer, Supreme Court To Hear Case

​In 1984, 25-year-old babysitter Linda Faye Rodgers was found half-naked and strangled to death in a Santa Ana home. A few months later, officials arrested Kenneth Clair on charges of burglary, murder and torture in the case. In 1987, an Orange County jury convicted him of first-degree murd ... More >>

Edelmira Corona, Final Player in Bizarre Family Murder Plot, Lucky to Get 14 Years in Prison

Corona​Edelmira Corona was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in state prison, closing the book on the murder-for-hire case reportedly born from co-worker Deborah Ann Perna's jealousy and hatred toward her brother, who was taking the reins of the family trucking business. The only one of six defendants ... More >>

Orange County Death Row Inmate Wins California Supreme Court Reversal

Brents: Gotta match?​A vicious Orange County career criminal, heroin addict, pimp and killer given a death sentence nearly 12 years ago has reason to rejoice today after the California Supreme Court reversed the punishment because a judge here botched the jury instructions.In a 26-page ruling writ ... More >>