Media Issues
More Los Angeles Police Department violence and frame-ups exposed
By John Andrews, September 23, 1999
A Los Angeles Police Department officer facing five years in prison for stealing eight pounds of cocaine revealed last week that he and his partner handcuffed and then shot an unarmed young man three ...
Snapshots of America's brutal society: two more executions, another police killing
By Kate Randall, September 3, 1999
Executions in Texas and Missouri
Trial date set for 14-year-old Michigan youth charged with first-degree murder
By Helen Halyard, August 27, 1999
The recent decision of the Michigan Supreme Court not to hear an appeal clears the way for a trial in the case of Nathaniel Abraham, who was charged with first-degree murder at age 11 in 1997. Nathani...
Snapshots of America's brutal society: state murder, police corruption and the expanding prison population
By Kate Randall, August 26, 1999
Judges meeting at luxury resort discuss ways to speed up executions
Texas court issues last-minute stay of execution of mentally ill death row prisoner
By Kate Randall, August 18, 1999
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled 5-4 yesterday to stay the execution of Larry Keith Robison, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection in Hun...
Sister of mentally ill prisoner facing August 17 execution in Texas: "A segment of society is applauding a man's death"
By Kate Randall, August 16, 1999
Barring a highly unlikely intervention by the US Supreme Court, Larry Keith Robison will be executed by the state of Texas in Huntsville at 6pm Tuesday, August 17.
Events on Florida's death row underscore barbarism of the US judicial system
By Kate Randall, August 11, 1999
The human rights group Amnesty International has condemned the United States for its use of the death penalty, its execution of juveniles and the mentally impaired, and its abusive treatment of prison...
Ricky Blackmon the first of seven Texas death row prisoners to be executed in the next two weeks
By Kate Randall, August 6, 1999
Ricky Blackmon, 41, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1987 murder of an East Texas man. Blackmon was the first of seven men on death row in the state of Texas scheduled to die by l...
Inside the US prison system—frame-ups, brutality and murder
By Kate Randall, July 22, 1999
America's prison system is notorious around the world for both its vast scale—more than 1.6 million people, enough to comprise the country's fourth-largest city—and for the savagery of its...
US media attempts to discredit campaign for Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Helen Halyard, July 16, 1999
During the past week major media outlets in the United States have revived their efforts to discredit the international campaign for the freedom of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. The former membe...
More than a quarter million mentally ill in America's jails and prisons
By Kate Randall, July 15, 1999
A report from the US Department of Justice finds that as of mid-1998 there were an estimated 283,800 mentally ill in the nation's prisons, and 547,800 on probation. Results of surveys conducted by the...
New York cop acquitted in shooting of unemployed "squeegee man"
By Shannon Jones, July 12, 1999
Brushing aside compelling eyewitness testimony that New York policeman Michael Meyer shot an unarmed man without provocation, a New York City judge found the police officer not guilty of all criminal ...
