Paul Elias

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San Francisco sheriff’s ethics hearing set to open

Paul Elias · June 20, 2012 7:28 am

Kidnapper in Chowchilla case wins prison release

Paul Elias · June 16, 2012 8:46 am

Chowchilla ‘busnapper’ wins release from prison

Paul Elias · June 16, 2012 1:04 am

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2004 file photo taken in San Quentin, Calif., Guard Joe Dellabruna opens an entrance to death row at San Quentin State Prison. Seven years after Scott Peterson was sentenced to death for murdering his pregnant wife Laci, his appeal is moving at lightning speed, at least compared to those of his 725Â fellow California Death Row inmates. Appealing the death penalty in California can take two decades, meaning that condemned prisoners are more likely to die behind bars of natural causes than be executed. Now voters in California get an opportunity this November to vote on a measure that would abolish the death penalty. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Death Row suicide highlights executions’ delays

Paul Elias · June 11, 2012 2:02 am