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Capital Punishment

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Was Tupac Shakur a Homophobe? Three Signs Makaveli Loved Gay People

    At six feet, four inches and nearly 300 pounds, Suge Knight was once hip-hop's most respected feared label executive. The Death Row Records capo was often ruthless and his questionable business practices regularly involved physical violence. Rumors that he threatened to throw Vanilla Ice off a hot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Nevin Shapiro Going a Bit Mad in Prison: "I'm Taking That Program Down to Chinatown"

    ​Apparently all that time behind bars is getting to convicted Ponzi schemer and allegation-throwing former booster Nevin Shapiro, because the Miami Herald got a hold of several bonkers emails the would-be-destroyer of Hurricanes football is typing up in prison. They do little to detract from Shapi ... More >>

  • Film

    December 1, 2011

    "Into the Abyss": Werner Herzog's Take on Murder and the Death Penalty

    ​Apparently all that time behind bars is getting to convicted Ponzi schemer and allegation-throwing former booster Nevin Shapiro, because the Miami Herald got a hold of several bonkers emails the would-be-destroyer of Hurricanes football is typing up in prison. They do little to detract from Shapi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    North Shore Medical Center Sued for Accidentally Injecting Grandpa With Execution Drug

    ​Richard Smith was admitted to North Shore Medical Center with complaints of shortness of breath and stomach trouble. Instead of giving him proper care, a nurse accidentally stuck Smith with a syringe full of pancuronium, one of the drugs used in lethal injections. Seventy-nine-year-old Smith late ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Execution by Firing Squad Could Be Coming Back to Florida

    ​A conversation in a Panhandle Waffle House may lead to a barbaric change in Florida's death penalty policy. After meeting with constituents, Rep. Brad Drake, a Republican from Eucheeanna, has introduced a bill that would do away with using lethal injections for the death penalty. Instead he'd lik ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Mos Def Challenges BET, Oprah, and Obama to Pay Tribute to Executed Prisoner Troy Davis

    Photo by Marta Xochilt Perez​On September 21, 2011, at 11:08 p.m. in Jackson, Georgia, a death row inmate named Troy Davis, convicted 20 years ago for the murder of off-duty Savannah policeman Mark MacPhail, was executed by lethal injection. For decades, though, Davis, his supporters, and many j ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Former Florida Gov. Claude Kirk, "a Tree-Shakin' Son of a Bitch," Dies at 85

    ​Former Florida Gov. Claude Kirk has died at the age of 85. Taking office in 1967, Kirk was Florida's first Republican governor since Reconstruction and the first Republican governor elected in a Southern state in modern times. Kirk is remembered for his outsize personality and flair for controver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Will Miami Get the Death Penalty? Probably Not

    ​For the first time in nearly 15 years, talk of the NCAA giving the so-called death penalty to a major sports program has surfaced. Reason: the Yahoo Sports-generated University of Miami football scandal. Of course, that talk is coming mostly from sports pundits, columnists, and message board hack ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Merrit Sims Sentenced to 25 Years In Prison In 1991 Miami Springs Police Murder

    via Florida Department of CorrectionsMerrit Sims​Cecilia Stafford stood in a Miami-Dade courtroom this afternoon and stared at Merrit Sims, the man who twenty years ago shot and killed her husband, Miami Springs officer Charles Stafford. "On behalf of my family, my children and myself, may you rot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Florida's Death Penalty Laws Deemed Unconstitutional

    ​Florida's particular method of sentencing prisoners to death has been deemed unconstitutional by Miami U.S. District Judge Jose Martinez today. The decision will not immediately strike down the law and didn't find the death penalty in and of itself unconstitutional. Though, it will guarantee conv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Ana Maria Cardona Back on Death Row for Murder of "Baby Lollipops"

    via Miami-Dade Corrections​The Miami mother convicted of murdering her three-year-old child Lazaro "Baby Lollipops" Figueroa in 1990 was sentenced to death by a Miami-Dade judge Friday. Judge Reemberto Diaz's sentencing puts 50-year-old Ana Maria Cardona back on death row, where he had been place ... More >>

  • Music

    June 3, 2010

    Rising L.A. rap star Nipsey Hussle makes his Miami debut at White Room

    via Miami-Dade Corrections​The Miami mother convicted of murdering her three-year-old child Lazaro "Baby Lollipops" Figueroa in 1990 was sentenced to death by a Miami-Dade judge Friday. Judge Reemberto Diaz's sentencing puts 50-year-old Ana Maria Cardona back on death row, where he had been place ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    Dead Men Talking

    via Miami-Dade Corrections​The Miami mother convicted of murdering her three-year-old child Lazaro "Baby Lollipops" Figueroa in 1990 was sentenced to death by a Miami-Dade judge Friday. Judge Reemberto Diaz's sentencing puts 50-year-old Ana Maria Cardona back on death row, where he had been place ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Mark Lane is Much More Than An "83-Year-Old Jonestown Survivor"

    Stephen Jaffe, a publicist hired by author Gerald Posner, responded to El Jefe's recent comment about lawyer and author Mark Lane. The comment, which was reported across the country, referred to Lane as an "83-year-old Jonestown survivor." Obviously, he is much more than that., We stand corrected. ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 8, 2010

    "Instruments of Torture Through the Ages" lashes the Freedom Tower

    Stephen Jaffe, a publicist hired by author Gerald Posner, responded to El Jefe's recent comment about lawyer and author Mark Lane. The comment, which was reported across the country, referred to Lane as an "83-year-old Jonestown survivor." Obviously, he is much more than that., We stand corrected. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2010

    Drink Motor Oil, Piss Whiskey

    Stephen Jaffe, a publicist hired by author Gerald Posner, responded to El Jefe's recent comment about lawyer and author Mark Lane. The comment, which was reported across the country, referred to Lane as an "83-year-old Jonestown survivor." Obviously, he is much more than that., We stand corrected. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    Out of the Closet Marks World AIDS Day With 12-Hour HIV-Testing Marathon

    More than 90,000 Floridians are living with HIV/AIDS, especially here in Miami-Dade, where one in every 98 Hispanic men, one in every 60 non-Hispanic white men, and one in every 29 African-American men are living with the disease. Luckily, HIV isn't necessarily an automatic deat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Eric Ripert, Jacques Pepin Talk Abusive Chefs, Favorite Foods and the State of Fine Dining at Arsht Celebrity Chef Series

    Photo by Juan MoninoOn stage at the Arsht Center: Jacques Pepin, Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert.Jacques Pepin showed Eric Ripert a thing or two in a friendly cook-off at the Arsht Center Celebrity Chef series Friday night. With nine minutes to go on the 30-minute clock, Pepin, who found time to ma ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2009

    The Upward Dog

    Photo by Juan MoninoOn stage at the Arsht Center: Jacques Pepin, Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert.Jacques Pepin showed Eric Ripert a thing or two in a friendly cook-off at the Arsht Center Celebrity Chef series Friday night. With nine minutes to go on the 30-minute clock, Pepin, who found time to ma ... More >>

  • News

    February 19, 2009

    Budget Cuts at the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office

    Bad guys, party on! Three of Miami's best prosecutors are getting the boot.

  • News

    February 5, 2009

    The Robes of Justice

    Death row inmate wants seat on state supreme court.

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Death Row Inmate Wants to Be the Next Supreme Court Justice

    Who says the electric chair should stand in the way of your dream job? Not Michael Lambrix. Sure, the 48-year-old waits on death row for fatally bludgeoning and strangling two people outside Fort Myers in 1983. But that hasn't stopped the articulate, overachieving inmate from applying to be Florid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2008

    Weekly News Wrapup - The Pope, Merging Airlines, and Canceled Concerts

    Who says the electric chair should stand in the way of your dream job? Not Michael Lambrix. Sure, the 48-year-old waits on death row for fatally bludgeoning and strangling two people outside Fort Myers in 1983. But that hasn't stopped the articulate, overachieving inmate from applying to be Florid ... More >>

  • Music

    April 17, 2008

    The Chronicles

    A new unauthorized biography of Dr. Dre comes from inside his own camp.

  • Culture

    February 21, 2008

    Dead Man Talking

    Kenny Carnes ponders life, mortality, and transformation on death row.

  • News

    September 27, 2007

    British Ex-Millionaire Fights for Freedom

    Krishna Maharaj went from the high life to a life sentence — for a crime he might not have committed

  • News

    December 28, 2006

    Letters from the Issue of December 28, 2006

    "I think he deserved to be executed"

  • News

    December 14, 2006

    Executing Angel

    A bad man, a flawed trial, and a needle

  • Calendar

    December 1, 2005

    Burdens of Proof

    The Exonerated examines a thorny issue

  • Music

    October 27, 2005

    Snoop Dogg

    The Best of Snoop Dogg Priority

  • Calendar

    May 15, 2003

    This Week's Day by Day Picks

    The Best of Snoop Dogg Priority

  • News

    August 30, 2001

    Money Talks

    In our pure sales culture, the Latin Grammy protesters could learn a hip-hop lesson

  • News

    January 6, 2000

    Pain & Gain, Part 3

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • News

    October 22, 1998

    Letters

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    News of the Weird

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • Music

    March 12, 1998

    Between Punk Rock and a Hard Place

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    News of the Weird

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • Film

    November 20, 1997

    Untamed Camera

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • Culture

    October 30, 1997

    Defense Mechanism

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • News

    October 16, 1997

    News of the Weird

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • News

    May 8, 1997

    News of the Weird

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • Music

    January 30, 1997

    Snoop Dogg Howls Again

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • News

    January 23, 1997

    News of the Weird

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • Music

    December 26, 1996

    All the Best

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • Film

    October 17, 1996

    Choose One: This Movie or the Death Penalty

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • News

    February 22, 1996

    Young and the Restless

    An allegedly hotheaded cop sparks resentment in an Overtown neighborhood

  • Film

    January 25, 1996

    Executioner's Song

    An allegedly hotheaded cop sparks resentment in an Overtown neighborhood

  • News

    September 21, 1995

    The Boulder Boys Must Die

    When federal prosecutors seek the death penalty in drug-related murders, the defendants are almost always black. Why should Miami's first "kingpin" case be any exception?

  • Film

    February 23, 1995

    Cause and Defect

    When federal prosecutors seek the death penalty in drug-related murders, the defendants are almost always black. Why should Miami's first "kingpin" case be any exception?

  • Film

    December 9, 1992

    Killer Instinct

    When federal prosecutors seek the death penalty in drug-related murders, the defendants are almost always black. Why should Miami's first "kingpin" case be any exception?

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