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Salon.com April 14, 2001 Kerry Lauerman |
Killing as "closure" John Ashcroft says the closed-circuit TV broadcast of Timothy McVeigh's execution will help victims heal. But will what they see look too brutal -- or not brutal enough? |
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 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 February 24, 2001 Bruce Shapiro |
Killing McVeigh Vengeance, not justice, will be televised with the execution of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber... |
Salon.com May 12, 2001 Alicia Montgomery & Fiona Morgan |
Botched! "If the government can't get it right in this case, how can we rely on it to get it right in any case?" Experts react to the FBI blunder... |
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 February 8, 2000 Michael Kroll |
Executioner's swan song? Public support is weakening, but the death penalty will be slow to die. |
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 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... |
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 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 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 20, 2000 Amy Goldwasser |
The exonerated Wrongly convicted, they sat on death row for years. Extraordinary legal measures saved their lives. A new play confronts us with their nightmares... |
Salon.com April 19, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski & Amy Standen |
The execution will not be webcast A judge rules that a company better known for soft-core porn cannot bring Timothy McVeigh's death to the masses... |
Salon.com March 15, 2002 Dimitra Kessenides |
"The Execution of Wanda Jean" Director Liz Garbus talks about the death penalty and her documentary on a woman who was executed for murder... |
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.... |
Salon.com August 9, 2000 Alicia Montgomery |
Too slow for death row? Oliver David Cruz failed seventh grade three times and couldn't pass the Army's entrance exam, but Texas says he's smart enough to be executed. |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com April 9, 2001 Gary Kamiya |
The patriot He was prepared to shed blood to defend liberty. What separates American terrorist Timothy McVeigh from thousands of other gun-worshipping zealots? |
Salon.com August 9, 2001 Gary Kamiya |
Gore Vidal joins the black-helicopter crowd With his defense of Timothy McVeigh as a heroic freedom fighter in this month's Vanity Fair, the contrarian goes postal on us once and for all... |
Scientific American July 2007 |
Bad Execution In recent months, news of numerous botched lethal injections has led courts and state governments to place moratoriums on the practice in a third of the 38 U.S. states that have the death penalty. What's to be done? |
Salon.com January 17, 2002 Suzy Hansen |
America's homegrown terrorists An expert on right-wing hate groups talks about the tortured emotional roots of their rage, their response to Sept. 11 and their role in the Oklahoma City bombing... |
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... |
Salon.com September 26, 2001 Jeffrey Eugenides |
Deciphering suicide The hijackers lacked the heroism of martyrs -- all they had was the violence... |
Salon.com June 9, 2001 David Neiwert |
The mystery of John Doe No. 2 The McVeigh execution may proceed as planned, but suspicions that there was at least one other accomplice to the Oklahoma City bombing still won't die... |
Reason November 2001 |
Letters Global Village or Pillage?... All the Rage... Enemies of Trade... Campaign Finance... Sentenced to Death... etc. |
Information Today December 15, 2015 |
Gale Debuts 19th-Century Crime and Punishment Collection Gale launched Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, its new primary-source archive of more than 2 million pages of material on 19th-century history, literature, law, and criminal justice. |