Capital Punishment

Nanci Griffith

Impaler's Bill Lindsey talks about the band's recent tour and their return to the 7th St. Entry

Photos courtesy of Impaler​It's been some time since we last heard from Twin Cities shock rockers Impaler. Since we last met up, the band has been working on all cylinders, playing gigs around town with some well known legendary metal bands like Faster Pussycat and Paul Di'anno. They've also b ... More >>

Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich murder sentencing held up by parachute accident

Bozicevich faces life in prison. The question is whether or not he may be eligible for parole.​The sentencing date for Minnesota Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich, recently convicted of murdering two fellow Army men in 2008, has been put off indefinitely because his attorney was involved in a skydiving a ... More >>

Joseph Bozicevich, Minnesota soldier, guilty of murder

While Sgt. Joe Bozicevich was in Iraq in 2008, something inside him snapped​U.S. Army Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich, the soldier from Minneapolis who opened fire on two fellow soldiers in Iraq, has been found guilty of murder. A military jury in Georgia convicted Bozicevich, 41, of two counts of pr ... More >>

Pussy Pen

While Sgt. Joe Bozicevich was in Iraq in 2008, something inside him snapped​U.S. Army Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich, the soldier from Minneapolis who opened fire on two fellow soldiers in Iraq, has been found guilty of murder. A military jury in Georgia convicted Bozicevich, 41, of two counts of pr ... More >>

Dr. Dre: An abridged history in honor of Dre Day

​Dre Day, our annual bluntsmoked, brass monkeyed, and ingeniously tended get-down in honor of the one and only, was started by the local design firm Burlesque of North America nine years ago Saturday, when those multi-disciplinarians were banded around Life Sucks Die Magazine. And for all the ridi ... More >>

Al Franken allies with Tom Coburn to oppose Uganda's death-to-homosexuals bill

Uganda's Parliament could outlaw homosexuality and make it a crime punishable by death.

Absolved death row inmate arrested for beating son with baseball bat

Not quite ironic, but close.

Impaler

Not quite ironic, but close.

Zygi Wilf: Create jobs and build my stadium!

Thursday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Mike Farrell: Actor and Activist

Thursday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Dead Man Walking

Thursday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Jodi Picoult

Thursday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Jon Langford

Thursday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Kevin McHale: Too sleepy for his own good

Thursday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Spotlight: The Exonerated

Thursday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Spotlight: Coyote on a Fence

'Coyote on a Fence': Live from death row

Immigrant Song

Jon Langford's American discoveries

Spotted

Jon Langford's American discoveries

Texas Two-Step?

Jon Langford's American discoveries

Blows Against the Death Penalty

Local attorney Sandra Babcock recently won a major international court decision

Flirting With Death

How an unlikely date led to the writing of 'The Exonerated'

Capitol Offenses

State legislators are poised for a spending spree--on stadiums and prisons

Hanging Judge

A damning verdict on executions in Minnesota

The Death Trap

What's wrong with Pawlenty's execution song

Dead Again?

The drive to bring back capital punishment has friends in high places

The Other War

The Bush administration & the end of civil liberties

Signifying Rappers

'Biggie and Tupac' charts the hits on a notorious heavy and an urban guerrilla

Off Beat

'Biggie and Tupac' charts the hits on a notorious heavy and an urban guerrilla

Out of Gas

Critics say the Animal Humane Society's method of dispatching the unadoptable is cruel. It's certainly becoming unusual.

Love and Death

In Mr. Death, documentarian Errol Morris trains his beloved Interrotron on execution technologist-turned-Holocaust denier Fred Leuchter

Big Punisher: Capital Punishment

In Mr. Death, documentarian Errol Morris trains his beloved Interrotron on execution technologist-turned-Holocaust denier Fred Leuchter

Ronin Ro: Have Gun Will Travel

In Mr. Death, documentarian Errol Morris trains his beloved Interrotron on execution technologist-turned-Holocaust denier Fred Leuchter

Michael A. Mello Dead Wrong

In Mr. Death, documentarian Errol Morris trains his beloved Interrotron on execution technologist-turned-Holocaust denier Fred Leuchter

Juror Reflects McVeigh Conviction

How the jury, like, convicted Timothy McVeigh and totally sentenced him to death, by juror (and 1995 University of Minnesota marketing grad) Tonya Stedman, as told to Vicki Stavig in the UM's alumni magazine, Minnesota:

Dead On Arrival

Tupac's posthumous Makaveli, along with new releases by Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, take gangsta rap to different ends

Death Row Stories

During the 1970s the Supreme Court outlawed capital punishment on the grounds that it was applied in an "arbitrary" and "capricious" manner. Now it's back with a vengeance, but as a group of Minnesota attorneys is learning, nothing has really changed.