America\'s Brutal Society
South Texas county indicts Cheney, Gonzales
By Alex Lantier, November 20, 2008
A grand jury in southern Texas' Willacy County has indicted US Vice President Dick Cheney and former US attorney general Alberto Gonzales on state charges of misconduct involving private prisons.
Child hunger in US rose by 50 percent in 2007
By Kate Randall, November 20, 2008
Some 691,000 children went hungry in America in 2007, a rise of 50 percent over the previous year, while one in eight Americans overall struggled to feed themselves.
Seven US executions scheduled in next 10 days
By Kate Randall, November 12, 2008
Seven death row inmates are scheduled to be executed in the US over the next 10 days, five of these in Texas
WSWS speaks with family members of Michigan fire victims
By the, November 1, 2008
WSWS reporter D'Artagnan Collier spoke to family members and a teacher of one of the victims of the fire in Highland Park, Michigan which killed four people on Wednesday, October 22.
Detroit residents denounce social decay in fire deaths
October 30, 2008
The following video is part of a series by the World Socialist Web Site reporters on the dire social conditions prevailing former auto production centers in Detroit.
US federal appeals court stays Troy Davis execution
By Kate Randall, October 25, 2008
A federal appeals court in Atlanta, Georgia issued a stay of execution on Friday for death row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis.
US Supreme Court denies Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeal for new trial
By Hiram Lee, October 20, 2008
The US Supreme Court has denied Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new trial. A well-respected journalist and political activist, Abu-Jamal was convicted in 1982 of murdering Philadelphia police officer D...
US Supreme Court clears way for execution of likely innocent death row inmate
By Kate Randall, October 16, 2008
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear the appeal of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. The case against Davis, convicted in the 1989 killing of an off-duty Savannah police office, has gain...
Georgia death row prisoner faces execution following denial of clemency
By Kate Randall, September 23, 2008
The state of Georgia is intent on executing Troy Anthony Davis. Barring a last-minute intervention by the US Supreme Court, Davis will die by lethal injection Tuesday at 7 p.m. local time in the death...
US: Abuse charged in New Jersey prison
By Peter Daniels, September 3, 2008
A group of seven prisoners at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton have filed a class action lawsuit charging abusive and inhuman conditions at the facility.
Five-year-old arrested in Florida on felony charges
By Walter Gilberti, February 25, 1998
The felony arrest of a five-year-old kindergarten student in Florida, Chaquita Doman, accused of biting and scratching a support teacher, once again throws the spotlight on the ignorance and callousne...
