Email Author Sara Catania

2002 Stories by Sara Catania

• Mercy on Death Row

  published December 5, 2002

  In all his 46 years, Thomas Nevius has rarely been first at anything. But this week the Nevada death-row inmate became the nation‘s firs... More >>

• Test Phobias

  published November 28, 2002

  Six months after the U.S. Supreme Court banned the execution of mentally retarded prisoners, doctors at San Quentin are gearing up to give IQ... More >>

• A Third Reprieve

  published November 21, 2002

  A convicted killer whose death sentence was twice overturned and whose case contributed to the demise of California‘s liberal Rose Bird cour... More >>

• A Killer’s Plea

  published November 14, 2002

  More >>

• L.A. County's 10

  published July 4, 2002

  STANLEY BERNARD DAVIS - Davis, 40, was convicted of shooting to death two college students, Michelle Ann Boyd, 19, and her... More >>

• Excerpts

  published July 4, 2002

  JUSTICE STEVENS, FOR THE MAJORITY: On the childlike mind of the mentally... More >>

• The Ultimate Test

  published July 4, 2002

  NOT ONE OF THE 10 MEN WHOSE CASES were tracked in the Weekly's investigation fits the Hollywood version of mental retardation. Not one... More >>

• Who Should Die?

  published July 4, 2002

  A Virginia jury had to make a choice before convicting Daryl Renard Atkins of robbing and killing a man for beer money. Atkins and his... More >>

• Justices Face IQ Test

  published March 7, 2002

  WASHINGTON -- In one of the most important cases of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court last week considered whether it is cruel and unusual... More >>

• Indecent Executions

  published February 21, 2002

  Much has been made of the 99 death-row inmates who have been freed across the U.S. over the past quarter-century when they turned... More >>

• The Killing Routine

  published February 7, 2002

  ”Snowball‘s Chance“ read the lead headline on the San Francisco Chronicle’s front page Tuesday, the day condemned inmate Stephen Wayne Ande... More >>

• A Brush With Life

  published January 31, 2002

  Clemency hearings in California are fundamentally strange: Neither of the people at the center of the proceedings actually shows up. Last... More >>

• A Killer Job

  published January 31, 2002

  At JUSTPAST midnight on January 28, convicted killer Stephen Wayne Anderson is scheduled to die by lethal injection at San Quentin. Anderson... More >>