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7 May 2008
Georgia
inmate put to death, ending seven-month halt to US executions
26 April 2008
The
Sean Bell verdict--assuring that New York City's police can kill
with impunity
22 April 2008
US
Supreme Court denies 11 death penalty appeals, states prepare
to resume executions
17 April 2008
US
Supreme Court upholds lethal injection, opening way to resumed
executions
29 March 2008
US:
Death sentence postponed for Mumia Abu-Jamal
29 February 2008
US leads world in imprisoning its people More than
one in 100 adults behind bars
9 January 2008
US
Supreme Court hears challenge to lethal injection procedure
18 December 2007
New
Jersey abolishes the death penalty
15 November 2007
New
York police shoot down disturbed youth--thought hairbrush was
a gun
29 September 2007
US
prison population at all time high
17 July 2007
Georgia
parole board issues 90-day stay of execution for death row inmate
10 July 2007
Prisons
as the new mental asylums: the example of Michigan
5 June 2007
As Bush administration prepares to issue new guidelines
for CIA interrogation
New admissions of widespread prisoner abuse
24 May 2007
New
York: another fatal shooting of an unarmed man sparks outrage
24 March 2007
Letters
demand the immediate release of Gary Tyler
19 March 2007
Three
New York City cops indicted in last year's killing of unarmed
Queens man
10 March 2007
Letters
demand the immediate release of Gary Tyler
7 March 2007
Victim of 1974 frame-up in Louisiana
Renewed calls for the freedom of Gary Tyler
24 January 2007
1999 case of 13-year-old convicted on adult murder
charges
Nathaniel Abraham released from state custody in Michigan
5 January 2007
Seven
New Orleans police officers indicted for post-Katrina killings
19 December 2006
Thousands
march in New York to protest police killing
18 December 2006
Following botched Florida lethal injection
Executions on hold in two US states
7 December 2006
Massive
US prison population continues to grow
28 November 2006
New
York police kill unarmed man, wound two others
21 November 2006
California:
UCLA student victim of police brutality
17 November 2006
Supreme
Court inaugurates new term with reactionary death penalty ruling
Michigan: Mentally ill inmate dies after five days
of abuse
10 August 2006
Buffalo,
New York: Law-and-order crackdown masks social decay
5 June 2006
US
prison population continues to soar in 2005
8 May 2006
"Botched executions" findings expose grisly
practice
US: Legal challenges to lethal injection as "cruel and unusual"
31 March 2006
Amnesty International reports 152 taser-related deaths
in the US
Electric shock becomes accepted police procedure
16 March 2006
Government
misconduct derails Moussaoui death penalty case
23 February 2006
Last-minute
reprieve for California death row inmate
17 January 2006
In
a new act of barbarism, California governor denies clemency--76-year-old
dies by lethal injection
29 December 2005
New
Orleans police gun down mentally ill man
3 December 2005
A
grim US milestone: 1,000th execution since 1976
5 November 2005
Record numbers in US prisons
Women, children and immigrants top incarceration increases
17 October 2005
Toledo,
Ohio: Neo-Nazi march sparks riot
15 October 2005
Report denounces "violation of human rights"
Thousands of young offenders in US face life behind bars
13 October 2005
Videotaped
beating in New Orleans-the ugly face of police repression
14 May 2005
US:
first New England execution in 45 years
19 February 2005
30 years in prison for crime committed by 12-year-old
US society punishes its most vulnerable
12 April 2004
Portland,
Oregon: second police killing in 10 months
25 February 2004
Grand
jury exonerates New York cop who shot 19-year-old youth
10 February 2004
California
death row inmate granted stay of execution
6 February 2004
19-year-old mourned in Brooklyn
Another fatal police shooting in New York
8 January 2004
Arkansas: Mentally ill inmate put to death
Medical "treatment" prepares execution
3 December 2003
Cincinnati
police beat unarmed black man to death
22 November 2003
New
York police assault fundraiser for anarchist group
19 November 2003
Arizona
sheriff introduces female chain gangs
12 November 2003
US:
Gunpoint police raid at South Carolina school
12 August 2003
New
round of police violence hits New York area
4 June 2003
Two
police killings underscore class tensions in New York City
25 February 2003
Pennsylvania
state police cleared in killing of 12-year-old
6 February 2003
Texas
executes British citizen despite international protests
23 January 2003
Commutation
of death sentences in Illinois deals blow to capital punishment
Law and order in Illinois--frame-up, torture and legal
murder
16 November 2002
Bush
administration exploits DC sniper case to promote death penalty
11 October 2002
Florida
execution of Aileen Wuornos: another morbid media spectacle
16 August 2002
Texas
executes Mexican national despite international protests
17 July 2002
Outrage
over police beating of black youth in Los Angeles suburb
5 July 2002
US
Supreme Court Justice Scalia on capital punishment: "Death
is no big deal"
27 June 2002
Divided
US Supreme Court ruling bans execution of the mentally retarded
31 May 2002
US
Supreme Court reinstates death sentence against Tennessee man
30 May 2002
Texas
executes man for crime committed at 17
15 May 2002
Execution
assembly line continues
to roll in US
27 April 2002
Illinois
death penalty report reveals widespread abuse
20 March 2002
Former
Black Panther Jamil Al-Amin sentenced to life in prison
14 March 2002
British
citizen executed in US despite international protests
6 March 2002
Appeals
court overturns New York police torture convictions
27 February 2002
Conference
of US right-wingers hears call to execute John Walker
28 September 2001
State
of emergency declared after acquittal of Cincinnati cop who shot
youth
17 August 2001
Last
minute stay delays Texas execution
15 August 2001
Hearing
on new evidence in case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
6 July 2001
14-year-old
dies in Arizona, latest casualty of "boot camps"
23 June 2001
Bush
administration widens reach of federal death penalty
19 June 2001
Second
US federal execution set for Tuesday morning
16 June 2001
Ohio
executes schizophrenic death row inmate
13 June 2001
Execution
Day in America
8 June 2001
The
McVeigh ruling-a travesty of justice
7 June 2001
Judge
denies stay of McVeigh execution
6 June 2001
Demonstrators
in Cincinnati demand end to police brutality
SEP (US) statement: New strategy needed to fight police
violence and racism
29 May 2001
Pennsylvania
governor withholds funds to train death penalty defense lawyers
26 May 2001
Why
the government's rush to execute Timothy McVeigh?
24 May 2001
The Cincinnati riots and the class divide in America
Part 1: gentrification and police repression
University of Cincinnati sociologists describe conditions
that triggered recent riots
10 May 2001
Police killing sparks protests in New Jersey
Unarmed man shot in front of children
8 May 2001
Misdemeanor
charges for Cincinnati cop who killed unarmed black teenager
4 May 2001
Iranian
director protests harassment by US immigration officials
27 April 2001
Executions
continue as US rejects worldwide moratorium on the death penalty
26 April 2001
Law-and-order
crackdown in aftermath of Cincinnati riots
13 April 2001
State of emergency declared
US: three nights of rioting follow police shooting in Cincinnati
10 April 2001
Another
Detroit shopper killed in confrontation with security guard
28 March 2001
US
prison population to reach a record two million by year's end
16 March 2001
Nineteen
US death row inmates executed so far this year
24 February 2001
Store
guards kill another worker in Detroit
2 February 2001
US
will not prosecute New York police in Diallo killing
26 January 2001
DNA
evidence exonerates two Texas inmates imprisoned since 1988
25 January 2001
Clinton
refuses to pardon Leonard Peltier
10 January 2001
US set to execute 13 death row inmates this month
Seven to die in Oklahoma, including an African-American woman
30 December 2000
Judge
bends law to toss out convictions of Los Angeles police
21 December 2000
Detroit
police gun down another mentally ill man
9 December 2000
Executions
continue in Texas and Florida: Electoral conspirators George
W. and Jeb Bush champion state killings
15 November 2000
US
election may be on hold, but Texas execution machine grinds on
11 November 2000
Bush's
Texas executes Mexican national Governor refuses to grant reprieve
21 October 2000
Texas
death penalty report details a system flawed by racial bias and
prosecutorial abuse
5 October 2000
Pennsylvania
death row inmates conduct hunger strike
20 September 2000
Police
fatally shoot eleven-year old boy in Californian drug raid
19 September 2000
Workers
speak out against police killings at Detroit town meeting
16 September 2000
US
Justice Department figures reveal racial bias in federal death
sentences
15 September 2000
Detroit
police kill again
14 September 2000
Actual Innocence --case
studies of DNA testing freeing the wrongfully convicted in the
US
8 September 2000
Michigan
judge drops charges against security guard in choking death of
Detroit man
31 August 2000
Detroit
police kill deaf-mute
23 August 2000
One
thousand protest death penalty near Pennsylvania's death row
18 August 2000
Release
of last protesters arrested during Republican convention
Executions in Oklahoma and Texas
17 August 2000
Los
Angeles police attack protesters at Democratic convention
12 August 2000
Over
200 Republican Convention protesters remain in Philadelphia jails
11 August 2000
Texas
carries out a double execution
5 August 2000
US
death penalty debate intensifies in aftermath of Graham execution
4 August 2000
Death
penalty opponents hold press conference in Philadelphia
2 August 2000
New
York cops cleared in killing of Patrick Dorismond
26 July 2000
City and police prepare for Republican Convention
Philadelphia rally demands prosecution of cops for televised
beating
20 July 2000
Homeless
man killed by Amtrak police in Philadelphia
19 July 2000
The
killing of Frederick Finley:
sudden death in an American city
14 July 2000
Police
beating in Philadelphia captured on videotape
13 July 2000
Police,
media smear Detroit man killed by security guards
8 July 2000
Thousands
protest killing of Detroit man by mall security guards
1 July 2000
Following
the execution of Gary Graham: a curious silence in the media
24 June 2000
After
the execution of Gary Graham: the world looks at America and
America looks at itself
23 June 2000
In
cold blood:
the state murder of Gary Graham
Report details the railroading of defendants to the
death chamber in Texas
22 June 2000
Widespread
protests against impending execution of Gary Graham in Texas
US death penalty study exposes a system rife with
errors
Seven of ten cases "seriously flawed"
5 June 2000
Prisons:
a booming industry in the US and Europe
3 June 2000
US
court upholds nine-year solitary confinement of Philadelphia
man
1 June 2000
DNA
retesting denied for Texas death row inmate
26 May 2000
Texas
executes three men in one week
17 May 2000
Detroit
leads US in police killings
12 May 2000
Amnesty
International condemns US for violations of UN Convention Against
Torture
10 May 2000
New
Jersey conference exposes cases of wrongful conviction and imprisonment
8 May 2000
Prison
labor on the rise in US
No federal charges in police killings of two unarmed
Philadelphia men
21 April 2000
US
Supreme Court upholds limits on death penalty appeals
Tennessee executes first prisoner in four decades
15 April 2000
Robert
Lee Tarver put to death in Alabama's electric chair
8 April 2000
Thousands
protest police violence in New York City
6 April 2000
Nathaniel
Abraham's rehabilitation center under investigation for abuse
31 March 2000
Class
justice in New York: Why the DA failed to aggressively prosecute
the cops who killed Diallo
29 March 2000
Abuse
in the California prison system
24 March 2000
Executions
carried out in Virginia, Missouri and Oklahoma
22 March 2000
The
killing of Patrick Dorismond: New York police violence escalates
in wake of Diallo verdict
18 March 2000
US
government report reveals growing numbers of children in adult
prisons
13 March 2000
The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 1
Part
2
Part
3
Part
4
9 March 2000
The
Abner Louima case: three New York cops guilty in cover-up of
torture
6 March 2000
Some
background to the incarceration of the mentally ill in the US
prison system
3 March 2000
Five days after the Diallo verdict
New York plainclothes cop kills unarmed Bronx man
2 March 2000
More
letters on the Amadou Diallo verdict
29 February 2000
Letters
on the Amadou Diallo verdict
28 February 2000
Acquittal of New York City police: court sanctions
murder of Amadou Diallo
How the trial was rigged
The Amadou Diallo case: The social and political roots
of police violence
26 February 2000
Texas
executes 62-year-old great grandmother Betty Lou Beets
22 February 2000
Cops take stand to defend shooting of immigrant worker
Amadou Diallo murder trial drawing to a close
19 February 2000
True
to form: Clinton rejects moratorium on death penalty
Amnesty International calls for new trial for Mumia
Abu-Jamal
15 February 2000
California's
"three-strikes" law boosts prison population: two case
histories
11 February 2000
US
executions continue at record pace despite revelations of wrongful
convictions
9 February 2000
Trial
begins in New York police killing of Amadou Diallo
5 February 2000
Guards,
police charged with abuse of prisoners at New York area jails
2 February 2000
Illinois
governor calls temporary halt to executions
1 February 2000
Two
million incarcerated in the US
28 January 2000
One
hundred frame-ups admitted in widening Los Angeles police scandal
24 January 2000
Paranoid
schizophrenic executed in Texas
19 January 2000
Two
Nassau County, New York jail guards plead guilty in fatal beating
of inmate
18 January 2000
New
York state makes settlement offer to Attica inmates
13 January 2000
Florida
legislature approves bill to speed executions
7 January 2000
Mental health law and the US judicial system
Disturbing questions raised by the Nathaniel Abraham case
23 December 1999
Trial
in Amadou Diallo killing is moved out of New York City
14 December 1999
Three
prisoners set to die December 14 as US executions near 100 for
the year
11 December 1999
The Nathaniel Abraham case and the conditions facing
Michigan's children
"Here is this mother begging for assistance and no one
responds"
8 December 1999
Sentencing
postponed for 13-year-old Michigan youth convicted of murder
Four days of violence and death
Social conditions and tensions in the US take their toll
23 November 1999
13-year-old
convicted of murder in Michigan: Harsh truths about a repugnant
verdict
WSWS readers comment on
Nathaniel Abraham verdict
19 November 1999
Larry Roberts discusses murder trial of 13-year-old
Michigan youth
WSWS reporter interviewed on Seattle
radio about Nathaniel Abraham case
18 November 1999
Human
rights advocates condemn murder conviction of 13-year-old Michigan
child
17 November 1999
Michigan
jury finds 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham guilty of second-degree
murder
"It's a tragedy for all of us," says Robin
Adams
Shooting victim's mother opposes jailing of 13-year-old defendant
in Michigan murder case
US Supreme Court clears way for first federal execution
since 1963
16 November 1999
Gloria Abraham speaks out on the Michigan murder trial
of her 13-year-old son
"People need to become aware that the government can
do these things"
15 November 1999
Rally
opposes murder trial of 13-year-old Michigan child
13 November 1999
US
Supreme Court escalates attack on rights of death row prisoners
11 November 1999
Background to the Nathaniel Abraham case
The origins of the juvenile justice system in America
Federal appeals court upholds racial profiling by
upstate New York police
10 November 1999
Michigan prosecutes 13-year-old as an adult
Closing arguments due in murder trial of Nathaniel Abraham
Forensic psychiatrist speaks on the Abraham case:
"When Nathaniel needed a system there was no system there
for him"
6 November 1999
New
York City police cleared in fatal shooting
4 November 1999
Michigan
murder trial of 13-year-old: Testimony undercuts prosecution
case
29 October 1999
US
schedules five executions this week
28 October 1999
On-the-spot
report from Michigan courtroom: Scenes from the murder trial
of a 13-year-old
15 October 1999
US
Supreme Court rejects appeal of mentally impaired death row inmate
6 October 1999
US
Supreme Court rejects delay of murder trial for Michigan child
2 October 1999
Highest
number of US executions in 45 years
24 September 1999
Murder
trial of Michigan child to begin October 18
23 September 1999
More
Los Angeles Police Department violence and frame-ups exposed
3 September 1999
Snapshots
of America's brutal society: two more executions, another police
killing
27 August 1999
Trial
date set for 14-year-old Michigan youth charged with first-degree
murder
26 August 1999
Snapshots
of America's brutal society: state murder, police corruption
and the expanding prison population
19 August 1999
Texas
court issues last-minute stay of execution of mentally ill death
row prisoner
16 August 1999
Sister
of mentally ill prisoner facing August 17 execution in Texas:
"A segment of society is applauding a man's death"
11 August 1999
Events
on Florida's death row underscore barbarism of the US judicial
system
6 August 1999
Ricky
Blackmon the first of seven Texas death row prisoners to be executed
in the next two weeks
16 July 1999
US
media attempts to discredit campaign for Mumia Abu-Jamal
15 July 1999
More
than a quarter million mentally ill in America's jails and prisons
12 July 1999
New
York cop acquitted in shooting of unemployed "squeegee man"
9 July 1999
Executions
carried out in three US states
24 June 1999
Social breakdown and the American police mentality
Fourteen-year-olds charged as adults in school shooting plot
US youth crime bill: more children to be tried as
adults
23 June 1999
US
Supreme Court upholds federal death sentence
19 June 1999
Texas
executes Canadian Stanley Faulder
The stun belt: Torture at the push of a button
17 June 1999
Justice Denied: The Hurricane Carter Story
A & E television series examines wrongful conviction and
incarceration in the US
Virginia to execute juvenile offender
16 June 1999
Illinois
prosecutors and police acquitted despite evidence they framed
defendant
15 June 1999
Fall of the "Dark Prince"
New York's top cop quits after brutality trial
Taped address from Mumia Abu-Jamal at college commencement
sparks right-wing protests
4 June 1999
Philadelphia
mayor witch-hunts supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Twelfth death row prisoner released in Illinois after
being proven innocent
The brutal society: A police manhunt in Pittsburgh
31 May 1999
Louima
trial: New York cop pleads guilty to immigrant's torture
29 May 1999
Snapshots
of a brutal society--one week in America
25 May 1999
Los
Angeles police kill homeless woman
19 May 1999
Petition
filed before US Supreme Court for Mumia Abu-Jamal
17 May 1999
The social context of a police frame-up
Why we defend Mumia Abu-Jamal
8 May 1999
Riverside
California police cleared of wrongdoing in murder of teenage
black girl
6 May 1999
Jury
hears tale of torture, brutality by New York City police
5 May 1999
California
executes mentally ill Vietnam veteran
27 April 1999
Tens
of thousands rally in Philadelphia for political prisoner Mumia
Abu-Jamal
23 April 1999
The
fight to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the defense of democratic rights
22 April 1999
Philadelphia
officials lift restrictions on march for Mumia Abu-Jamal
21 April 1999
Live
from Death Row: Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks from
prison
6 April 1999
Diallo murder charges, Louima assault trial
Spotlight on NYC police brutality throws Mayor Giuliani in crisis
1 April 1999
Widespread
opposition to death penalty legislation in Michigan
Texas executes inmate on death row since 1974
31 March 1999
Testimony before United Nations Human Rights Commission
Amnesty International condemns US for executions and police brutality
23 March 1999
Death
penalty opponents speak in Detroit
18 March 1999
Michigan
judge condemns 16 year old to life sentence with no parole
13 March 1999
Texas
sets date for execution of Canadian Stanley Faulder
12 March 1999
Inequality and police brutality in New York City
The social underpinnings of the murder of Amadou Diallo
11 March 1999
Despite
growing protests, US states execute two more men
3 March 1999
1,700
at New York rally to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal
27 February 1999
An example of the sadistic treatment of US prisoners
Mike Tyson thrown in solitary confinement after being denied
psychiatric medication
26 February 1999
The
political issues in the fight to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal
Biography of John William King highlights brutalization
of American society
Racist killer sentenced to death in Texas murder
24 February 1999
New
York: Long record of abuse at Nassau County jail
23 February 1999
Ohio
carries out first execution in 36 years
19 February 1999
13-year-old
child sentenced as an adult in Michigan
18 February 1999
Trial
opens in racist dragging death in Jasper, Texas
Immigrant killed by New York City police buried in
Guinea
6 February 1999
New
York City police execute Guinean immigrant in a hail of bullets
30 January 1999
New
date to be set for execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal
27 January 1999
US
high court upholds death sentence of Canadian on death row in
Texas
26 January 1999
New
York: Nassau County jail guards stomp man to death
15 January 1999
Despite
court ruling of unfair trial, Texas executes Troy Farris
Justices hostile to lawyer for 12 year old charged
with murder
Appeals court hearing on Nathaniel Abraham confession
10 December 1998
The
Texas killing machine targets Canadian Stanley Faulder
4 December 1998
United States violates international human rights
standards
Part 6 in a series of articles on Amnesty International's
report on human rights abuses
19 November 1998
The death penalty in the US: a rising toll of state
executions
Part 5 in a series of articles on Amnesty International's
report on human rights abuses in the US
18 November 1998
The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Political prisoner denied new trial after 16 years on death row
12 November 1998
Asylum-seekers treated like criminals
Part 4 in a series of articles on Amnesty International's
report on human rights abuses in the US
6 November 1998
Violence and brutality in the prison system
Part Three in a series of articles on Amnesty International's
report of human rights abuses in the US
27 October 1998
Police brutality in America
Part Two in a series of articles on Amnesty International's
report of human rights abuses in the US
24 October 1998
Giuliani and Rikers Island
New York prison administers
medicine for profit
17 October 1998
US cited for widespread human rights abuses:
First in a series of articles on Amnesty International report
9 October 1998
City
of New York agrees to $3 million settlement in police brutality
case
5 September 1998
Prosecutor's
murder case against two Chicago boys collapses
28 August 1998
Interview with attorney of 12-year-old charged with
murder in Michigan
"This is a test case to try any child as an adult"
15 August 1998
Prosecutors,
media distorted case against Chicago boys charged with murder
7 August 1998
US
prison population hits 1.7 million
31 July 1998
Two
more US children face murder charges
28 July 1998
The
Capitol shooting as the symptom of a social crisis
25 July 1998
Two
snapshots of the brutal society
21 July 1998
Executions
on the rise in California
18 July 1998
California
judge orders man electronically stunned in courtroom
2 July 1998
The
case of Nathaniel Abraham: background to the prosecution
of a child for murder
13 June 1998
The murder of James Byrd, Jr.
Racial violence and the social forces in America that fuel it
23 May 1998
The
shooting in Oregon:
Alienation, adolescence and violence
19 May 1998
US courts try children as adults
The prosecution of Nathaniel Abraham and the lessons of the James
Bulger case in Britain
16 May 1998
Tens
of thousands of children
tried as adults in US
9 May 1998
The case of Nathaniel Abraham
Trial delayed as state appeals ruling
on murder confession
7 May 1998
Twelve-year-old faces
murder charges in the US:
The system puts one of its victims on trial
23 April 1998
Despite international protests
Second immigrant executed in US
16 April 1998
US
execution proceeds despite world condemnation
30 March 1998
Three executed in Florida, one in Virginia:
A week of state-sanctioned slaughter
28 March 1998
The
Jonesboro murders: Why?
27 March 1998
In response to shooting deaths at Arkansas school:
Government, media suggest prison or
death for child offenders
25 February 1998
Five-year-old arrested in Florida
on felony charges
7 February 1998
Asylum seekers testify of brutality by jail guards
4 February 1998
The
Brutal Society: A comment on the execution of Kaye Faye Tucker
3 February 1998
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