Media Issues
Executions carried out in three US states
By a reporter, July 9, 1999
Three men were executed in Texas, Oklahoma and Florida late Wednesday night, and Florida was set to kill again on Thursday.
US youth crime bill: more children to be tried as adults
By Kate Randall, June 24, 1999
On June 17 the US House of Representatives passed a juvenile crime bill which strips young people in America of many of their rights as children in the justice system, and further erodes the distincti...
US Supreme Court upholds federal death sentence
By Martin McLaughlin, June 23, 1999
In the first case to reach the highest US tribunal since the passage in 1994 of the Federal Death Penalty Act, the Supreme Court upheld a death sentence in a federal criminal case despite ample eviden...
The brutal society
The stun belt: Torture at the push of a button
By Elisa Brehm, June 19, 1999
“I woke up a short time later to very intense shocking pain running through my body. This electrical current was so intense that I thought that I was actually dying. I had not been causing any t...
Texas executes Canadian Stanley Faulder
By Kate Randall, June 19, 1999
Stanley Faulder, a 61-year-old native of Jasper, Alberta, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas on Thursday. His final appeal to the US Supreme Court was rejected 75 minutes before he ...
Justice Denied: The Hurricane Carter Story
A & E television series examines wrongful conviction and incarceration in the US
By Kate Randall, June 17, 1999
The A & E cable television network is airing a five-part series entitled "Justice Denied" as part of its "American Justice" program, hosted by Bill Kurtis. The series investigates wrongfully accused a...
Virginia to execute juvenile offender
By David Walsh, June 17, 1999
In violation of international law, the state of Virginia was scheduled Wednesday to put to death a man who was only seventeen years old at the time of his alleged crime. Douglas Christopher Thomas was...
Illinois prosecutors and police acquitted despite evidence they framed defendant
By Alden Long, June 16, 1999
A DuPage County, Illinois prosecutor and four sheriff's officers were acquitted by a county judge and jury June 4 of charges that they conspired to frame up and convict Rolando Cruz for murder, rape a...
Fall of the "Dark Prince"
New York's top cop quits after brutality trial
By Bill Vann, June 15, 1999
The resignation of the top-ranking officer in New York City's police department June 10 underscores the continuing crisis over acts of brutality and the systematic violation of democratic rights that ...
Taped address from Mumia Abu-Jamal at college commencement sparks right-wing protests
By Jerry White, June 15, 1999
Students at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington heard a 13-minute taped address from political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal at their commencement ceremony June 11, despite demands by right-wing...
The brutal society: A police manhunt in Pittsburgh
By Paul Scherrer, June 4, 1999
In an example of the way in which society is being brutalized—and repression and force used as the solution to all problems—a massive 20-hour manhunt conducted in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ...
Philadelphia mayor witch-hunts supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Tom Bishop, June 4, 1999
Right-wing political forces in Philadelphia have escalated their campaign against supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the radio journalist and well-known opponent of police brutality and racism who has spe...
