21 April 1999
25 dead
in Colorado school shooting:
A nation at war ... with itself
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
At least
13 deaths in Amtrak collision in Illinois
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
19 December 1998
San Francisco's
homeless dying at record rate
12 December 1998
Report
on New York State government funding
Money for prisons, not for schools
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
27 November 1998
Students
arrested in Wisconsin:
why the desperation among young people in the US?
New York Welfare
Policy claims an infant's life
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
Karla Faye Tucker:
Another victim of state killing |