Media Issues
DNA retesting denied for Texas death row inmate
By Kate Randall, June 1, 2000
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected on Tuesday by a 6-3 vote a plea by death row inmate Ricky Nolen McGinn for DNA retesting in his case. McGinn is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thu...
Texas executes three men in one week
By Kate Randall, May 26, 2000
Three men have been put to death in Texas this week. James Richardson, 32, died by lethal injection Tuesday for the 1986 holdup and murder of Gerald Abay. On Wednesday, Richard Donald Foster, 47, was ...
Detroit leads US in police killings
By Jerry White, May 17, 2000
Detroit police officers kill citizens at a higher rate than police in any other big US city, according to FBI statistics made public by the Detroit Free Press Monday, May 15. Detroit had a rate of 0.9...
Amnesty International condemns US for violations of UN Convention Against Torture
By Kate Randall, May 12, 2000
The United States appeared Wednesday, May 10 in front of the United Nations Convention Against Torture in Geneva in its first appearance before the body since ratifying the convention six years ago. T...
Prison labor on the rise in US
By Alan Whyte and Jamie Baker, May 8, 2000
US trade union officials have repeatedly denounced China for its use of prison labor, as part of the AFL-CIO's campaign against the normalization of trade relations with China. At the same time, howev...
No federal charges in police killings of two unarmed Philadelphia men
By Tom Bishop, May 8, 2000
US Attorney Michael Stiles has announced that no federal criminal charges will be filed in two police shootings which drew widespread protest from civil rights and community groups, including the NAAC...
Tennessee executes first prisoner in four decades
By Kate Randall, April 21, 2000
At 1:37 a.m. Wednesday morning, April 19, Robert Glen Coe was pronounced dead after receiving a lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in west Nashville, Tennessee. He became t...
US Supreme Court upholds limits on death penalty appeals
By Kate Randall, April 21, 2000
In important rulings related to the death penalty on April 18, the US Supreme Court voted to uphold the basic tenets of the 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), which restricts...
Robert Lee Tarver put to death in Alabama's electric chair
By Kate Randall, April 15, 2000
Robert Lee Tarver Jr, 52, was put to death shortly after midnight on Friday morning, April 14 in Atmore, Alabama in the state's electric chair. Tarver had been convicted of the 1984 murder of convenie...
Thousands protest police violence in New York City
By Steve Light, April 8, 2000
In the face of growing police violence and the firm backing of the police by New York City's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, several thousand people marched April 5 in Manhattan from Union Square to City Hall...
Class justice in New York: Why the DA failed to aggressively prosecute the cops who killed Diallo
By Bill Vann, March 31, 2000
The outrage sparked by the acquittal last month of four New York City police officers in the Amadou Diallo case continues to simmer, fed by new acts of brutality and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's outright ...
Abuse in the California prison system
March 29, 2000
The following commentary was submitted to the WSWS by David McGowan. McGowan is the author of the recently published book Derailing Democracy.
