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Twelfth death row prisoner released in Illinois after being proven innocent
By Alden Long, June 4, 1999
Ronald Jones became the twelfth prisoner released from death row in the state of Illinois when prosecutors in Cook County decided on Monday, May 18, not to try him for a second time.
Louima trial: New York cop pleads guilty to immigrant's torture
By Bill Vann, May 31, 1999
Justin A. Volpe entered a guilty plea Tuesday May 26 to all the charges against him in connection with the stationhouse torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima in August 1997.
Snapshots of a brutal society—one week in America
By Kate Randall and John Andrews, May 29, 1999
Fairfield, Connecticut—Ecuadoran family run down on railroad tracks
Los Angeles police kill homeless woman
By John Andrews, May 25, 1999
Last Friday the Los Angeles Police Department committed an atrocity beyond the pale of even its usual brutal standards. At 4:30 in the afternoon Officer Edward Larrigan shot and killed a still unident...
Jury hears tale of torture, brutality by New York City police
By Bill Vann, May 6, 1999
A story of depraved police brutality against a defenseless immigrant worker was told in grim detail to a federal jury in Brooklyn May 4 as opening arguments were made in the trial of five New York Cit...
California executes mentally ill Vietnam veteran
By Jerry White, May 5, 1999
The state of California put to death Manuel "Manny" Babbitt, a mentally disturbed Vietnam veteran, early Tuesday morning. On death row for 18 years, Babbitt, a 50-year-old grandfather, was executed by...
The Columbine High School massacre: Letters from readers
April 30, 1999
To the editors of WSWS,
The social tensions underlying the Colorado school shooting
April 28, 1999
Dear Editor:
Regarding "Columbine High School Massacre: American Pastoral...American Berserk"
April 28, 1999
Dear editors,
The Columbine High School massacre: American Pastoral ... American Berserk
By David North, April 27, 1999
Columbine High School appeared to be, at least in the view of its administrators and the county school board, such a lovely place for young people to grow up and learn. In its official profile, the in...
Letters from readers: "The Littleton school killers were bred in this society"
April 24, 1999
To the editor,
The fight to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the defense of democratic rights
By Socialist Equality Party US, April 23, 1999
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