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Salon.com March 17, 2000 Alicia Montgomery |
Angels of justice Barry Scheck and Jim Dwyer talk about the Innocence Project, which has helped overturn eight wrongful convictions of death-row inmates. |
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Alan Berlow |
Bush's death penalty dodge The Texas governor has issued his first reprieve in a death penalty case; the question is whether he's seen the light or is just playing politics. |
Salon.com October 3, 2000 Alan Berlow |
Bush's big lie His "not me" excuse for the 145 executions in Texas on his watch relies on the kind of legal hairsplitting that would make the president proud... |
Salon.com October 20, 2000 Bruce Shapiro |
Deadly lies George W. Bush and Al Gore both believe capital punishment deters violent crime. They're wrong... |
Salon.com June 22, 2000 Anthony York |
"This is a shaky death case" The Northwestern professor whose students helped free four death row prisoners talks about Gary Graham, George W. Bush and why Al Gore is silent on Graham's pending execution. |
Salon.com January 2, 2001 David Lindorff |
The death penalty's other victims When prosecutors eliminate jurors opposed to capital punishment, they also weed out women and minorities and stack the deck against defendants... |
Salon.com February 8, 2000 Michael Kroll |
Executioner's swan song? Public support is weakening, but the death penalty will be slow to die. |
Salon.com July 4, 2001 Alan Berlow |
A Supreme Court shocker Sandra Day O'Connor's criticisms of the death penalty couldn't have come from a more unlikely source... |
Salon.com June 12, 2001 Bruce Shapiro |
What about retarded criminals? Although Bush says they shouldn't be executed, his Texas record shows otherwise, fueling the division between America and Europe over the death penalty... |
Reason July 2001 Cathy Young |
McVeigh to Macbeth The difference between revenge, retribution, and right... |
Reason December 2007 Radley Balko |
No Money, No Justice Do public defenders deserve scorn, or bigger budgets? Book review: Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office, by Kevin Davis. |
Salon.com May 9, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
The McVeigh effect The media buzz over the white Oklahoma City bomber's execution is eclipsing the truth about federal death-row inmates: Most are black or Latino... |
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Alicia Montgomery |
Trail mix: Bush and executions George W. Bush's capital punishment record doesn't pass the sniff test, according to a Chicago Tribune investigation.... |
Reason June 2008 Radley Balko |
Soundbite: Freeing the Innocent A conversation with Craig Watkins, the first elected African-American district attorney in Texas history. |
Salon.com September 28, 2000 Jake Tapper |
33 down George W. Bush jets in long enough to see Texas execute another prisoner -- putting him just 4 shy of his own record for the most put to death in one year. |
Reason December 2008 Radley Balko |
Innocence Denied As the science of DNA testing improves, labs can go further and further back in time to test even damaged and partially decomposed DNA evidence. |
Reason April 2004 Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
Reason February 2003 Ronald Bailey |
Guilt Tip DNA testing and justice: Voters seem to agree that if the state is going to claim the awesome power to execute murderers, it should make every effort to insure that those it kills are in fact guilty. |
Salon.com October 20, 2000 Suzy Hansen |
Inside the Texas death machine Last meals and last words are just part of the daily routine for death-row employees featured in an NPR documentary... |
Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Radley Balko |
Free at Last The 200th person wrongfully convicted of a crime has been exonerated with the help of the Innocence Project, an organization founded by attorneys Barry Sheck and Peter Neufeld at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law in 1992. |