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1998 Stories by Sara Catania

• Death Row Reprieve

  published December 24, 1998

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• The Avengers

  published November 12, 1998

  There are two main arguments death-penalty backers invoke when pressing for an execution: avenging the suffering of the victim’s family an... More >>

• Remorse in High Places

  published November 5, 1998

  Carolina Tovar didn't know what to think when the phone rang at her South- Central home last Thursday and the person on the other end said he was... More >>

• Saving Ricky Tovar (page 2)

  published October 29, 1998

  Legally, he said, he could not show them the police report until the witness's name had been removed, and he refused to hand over any documents... More >>

• Saving Ricky Tovar (page 1)

  published October 29, 1998

  The day after his youngest son's arrest, Salvador Tovar called a family meeting. His three grown children quickly converged on the Tovar home, an... More >>

• Clean Air Takes Back Seat

  published September 24, 1998

  After months of harangues from riders fed up with wheezing, jam-packed buses, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority last month proudly... More >>

• Fear and Self-Loathing in Adolescents

  published September 3, 1998

  Early on in Inner Hunger: A Young Woman's Struggle Through Anorexia and Bulimia, we learn that as a child, author Marianne Apostolides, now in her... More >>

• Killing Joke

  published May 28, 1998

  San Quentin does not coddle inmates, especially those facing execution. For the condemned, every prison rule — from the complete segregation o... More >>

• The Alienists

  published May 21, 1998

  SAN RAFAEL - In late March and early April, a trio of staff experts gathered in a San Quentin meeting room, notebooks in hand, pencils at the... More >>

• Sanity Check

  published May 7, 1998

  SAN RAFAEL - Each weekday morning since early April, Horace Edwards Kelly has been roused from his bunk on San Quentin's Death Row to be showered... More >>

• Green Reprieve

  published May 7, 1998

  When the leaders of the Sierra Club summoned the media to their San Francisco headquarters last weekend to trumpet the failure of an... More >>

• A Matter of Life or Death

  published April 30, 1998

  SAN RAFAEL — In firm, measured tones, the attorney for convicted murderer Horace Edwards Kelly told a Marin County jury this week that hi... More >>

• Last Rights

  published April 16, 1998

  On a brilliant spring day in 1996, flanked by American flags on the White House South Lawn, President Clinton signed the Antiterrorism and... More >>

• Death Defying

  published April 16, 1998

  With the scheduled execution of convicted murderer Horace Edwards Kelly less than a week away, his attorneys are arguing in a Marin County... More >>

• A Night in Provence

  published March 19, 1998

  There is something inherently comforting about a Provence-style bistro. Bordered by Italy to the east and the Mediterranean to the south, Provence... More >>

• Zealots Target Sierra Club

  published February 26, 1998

  "No nation in human history ever undertook to deal with such masses of alien population," declared the Atlantic Monthly, blaming immigration for... More >>

• Nature Boy

  published February 5, 1998

  Adam Werbach fidgets in his dressing room, swilling bottled water and waiting to tape a talk show called The Couch. A wardrobe guy... More >>