June 12
USA:
New Criminal Record: 7.2 MillionNation's Justice System Strains to
Keep Pace With Convictions
The number of people under supervision in the nation's criminal justice
system rose to 7.2 million in 2006, the highest ever, costing states tens
of billions of dollars to house
Sept. 5
USA:
Destruction in black America is self-inflicted
DEBATING capital punishment at an Ivy League university a few years ago, I
was confronted with the claim that since death sentences are more often
meted out in cases where the victim is white, the death penalty must be
racially
June 10
USA:
Stacking juries toward death
When 5 justices of the US Supreme Court rejected a death row inmate's
challenge to his sentence last week, they acknowledged that a capital
defendant has the right to trial by an impartial jury -- one that is drawn
from a pool that has not been
Jan. 10
USA:
Capital punishment America turns its back on death penalty after
botched lethal injection of killerNumber of condemned at lowest point
for 30 years as opinion begins to change
It took Angel Nieves Diaz 34 minutes to die from the time the 2
executioners inserted the IV
Feb. 18
USA/INDIANA:
'Exonerated' explores justice system's mortal mistakes
A half-dozen former death-row inmates put the American justice system on
trial in the University of Southern Indiana Theatre's latest production,
and their case is troubling. It ought to be, regardless of where
Jan. 26
USA:
The Innocent and the Shammed
As the words scroll across a darkened TV screen, we hear an authoritative
voice announce that every year an alarming number of people in this
country are wrongfully convicted. Millions of Americans who watched
these promotions in recent weeks knew
Dec. 22
USA:
Death Sentences Show Decline NationwideWhen they have the option,
jurors prefer a sentence of life without parole, experts say.
The number of death sentences imposed by juries around the country has
plummeted since 1999, according to a study released Wednesday by the
Nov. 20
USA:
The Quaint Mr. Gonzales
Most Republicans and many Democrats have hailed Bushs nomination of White
House counsel Alberto Gonzales for attorney general as a brilliant choice.
Whereas John Ashcroft ruffled feathers with his coarse warnings that
opponents of Bushs post-9/11
March 3
USA:
International Law And the Death Penalty
In regard to your Feb. 25 editorial Rule of (International) Law: The
U.S. Constitution makes treaties -- like the Vienna Convention, which
guarantees foreign nationals access to consular assistance -- part of the
supreme law of the
