Media Issues
Executions in Oklahoma and Texas
By Kate Randall, August 18, 2000
John Satterwhite, 53, died by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas at 6:29 p.m. Wednesday. He had been convicted of the 1979 murder of Mary Francis Davis, 54, at a store in San Antonio, Texas.
Texas carries out a double execution
By David Walsh, August 11, 2000
In the absence of Governor George W. Bush, who was campaigning for the presidency in California, the state of Texas carried out a double execution Wednesday, for the fourth time in fifty years and the...
New York cops cleared in killing of Patrick Dorismond
By Bill Vann, August 2, 2000
A Manhattan grand jury cleared a New York City detective of criminal charges in the death of Patrick M. Dorismond, an unarmed Haitian-American security guard who was shot dead after angrily rebuffing ...
City and police prepare for Republican Convention
Philadelphia rally demands prosecution of cops for televised beating
By Tom Bishop, July 26, 2000
About 1,000 angry Philadelphia residents attended a rally July 23 to demand the prosecution of police officers involved in the beating of carjacking suspect Thomas Jones 10 days earlier. The beating, ...
Police beating in Philadelphia captured on videotape
By Tom Bishop, July 14, 2000
In yet another case of police brutality that has drawn national headlines, more than a dozen Philadelphia cops were shown beating a wounded suspect on live TV on Wednesday, July 12. The scene was remi...
Following the execution of Gary Graham: a curious silence in the media
By Kate Randall, July 1, 2000
It has been a little more than a week since Gary Graham was executed in Huntsville, Texas. CNN provided minute-by-minute coverage of the run-up to the lethal injection, and, in general, the American m...
After the execution of Gary Graham: the world looks at America and America looks at itself
By David Walsh, June 24, 2000
The June 22 execution of Gary Graham, sanctioned by Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate-to-be George W. Bush, has cast a penetrating light on American society and helped lay bare its ...
Report details the railroading of defendants to the death chamber in Texas
By Joseph Tanniru, June 23, 2000
A report released earlier this month documents gross injustices and legal abuses in death penalty cases in the state of Texas. The report, published by the Chicago Tribune, examines the state with by ...
In cold blood: the state murder of Gary Graham
By Kate Randall, June 23, 2000
American death row inmate Gary Graham was executed Thursday night in Huntsville, Texas. Graham, 36, also known as Shaka Sankofa, maintained his innocence to the end. He was killed by lethal injection ...
Widespread protests against impending execution of Gary Graham in Texas
By Joseph Tanniru, June 22, 2000
Texas inmate Gary Graham, also known as Shaka Sankofa, is scheduled to be executed this Thursday, June 22 at 6 p.m. Graham has been imprisoned on death row for 19 years.
US death penalty study exposes a system rife with errors
Seven of ten cases "seriously flawed"
By Kate Randall, June 22, 2000
A recent study on the death penalty in the United States exposes a system fraught with error and inequities. The US has come under increasing international criticism for continuing the barbaric practi...
US court upholds nine-year solitary confinement of Philadelphia man
By Tom Bishop, June 3, 2000
A three-judge panel of the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has unanimously ruled that Pennsylvania authorities may continue the nine-year solitary confinement of Russell Shoats, a form...
