It's been 130 years since the Supreme Court has heard direct arguments about the method of execution -- back then, it was the firing squad. Today, it'll be on a Kentucky case; Kentucky, like California and 35 other states, uses lethal injection. In December 2006, a California judge found that, the LA Times reports, There was "more than adequate" evidence that the state was violating the U.S. Constitution after hearing testimony that lethal injection......

April 2007 -- Gonzales says, "I don't recall" 72 times at Senate hearing It's Friday! And it's also the final day on the job for Bush-tushy-wipin', habeas corpus trashin', eavesdroppin', worst-AG-ever Alberto Gonzales. Nicknamed "Fredo" by the Commander in Disbelief either because his name is kinda like Alfredo, or perhaps after the weakest Corleone in The Godfather, Gonzales became a Bush Yes-man in the mid-'90s. Gonzales' crimes accomplishments are many. He assisted in obfuscating......

- If you're looking for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in LA public libraries, you will be sorely disappointed - LAT - Right now Eddie Van Halen is in rehab - TMZ - The USC football lockerroom is colorless, says black Trojan running backs and special teams coach Todd McNair, who dubbed the kickoff team The White Nation, and calls the other black coaches Brojans. Controversy brewed yesterday when one of the students created......

US attorney in Frisco sez the LA Times story was filled with inaccuracies when it claimed that Roger Clemens and others were the names redacted from the affidavit of MLB players fingered by stool pigeon Jason Grimsley - LAT Guns 'N Roses announces new tour dates including two in LA: 12/17, 12/19 at the Gibson - MTV Death Row inmate convicted of murder dies of a heart attack, victim's mother pissed that he wasn't......

Stuart Alexander, the Sausage King of San Leandro, died in his prison cell today. He was on suidice watch. He was also on Death Row. SFist has his bizarre story. Alexander was a handsome (looks a little like Howard Hughes, huh?) businessman and one-time mayoral candidate who went bezerk when he was visited by four state meat inspectors who had heard he wasn't cooking his sausage at a high enough temperature. Bezerk as in......

Marion "Suge" Knight just can't ever get on the right side of a court case. A Los Angeles Judge has ordered Suge to pay $107 million dollars to a former business partner that claims she helped to found Death Row Records (now called Tha Row). Suge has been in and out of jail for the past 10 years and there is still some question about his involvement in the altercation Dr. Dre had at......

Not to be outdone by Master P, Marion "Suge" Knight was arrested over the weekend. In a surprise twist, Suge wasn't in trouble in connection with a violent incident but for driving fast and carrying the chronic in Barstow. One can only imagine that Mr. Knight will use the incident to help increase sales of the upcoming Tha Row release, The Very Best of Death Row. Part of the proceeds of the sale of......

If reports from Defamer.com's Hollywood Privacy Watch (TM) are true, Suge Knight may have been strutting around Koi like he owned the room on Thursday night, but come next Wednesday he'll be minus one asset when the IRS sells the Beverly Hills headquarters of Death Row Records, a rap label Knight founded before heading off to prison for parole violations in 1996. The Los Angeles Business Journal gives us the scoop: The building at......

The new CityBeat features a long interview with rapper Kurupt on his new gig as the top A&R man for Tha Row records. Tha Row - formerly known as Death Row - rose to world fame on the rhymes of artists like Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Doggy Dogg. He'll be teaming up with infamous rap kingpin Suge Knight, who was recently released from prison after his latest probation violation. Kurupt, renowned for......