Law

Death on the Installment Plan Death on the Installment Plan

In Terre Haute, the effects of one execution are only the beginning.

Jul 12, 2001 / Feature / Jonathan Shainin

Scalia’s Kind of Privacy Scalia’s Kind of Privacy

One of the most surprising decisions of the Supreme Court term just concluded was Justice Antonin Scalia's ruling in favor of a criminal defendant who claimed that a thermal imagi...

Jul 12, 2001 / David Cole

Ashcroft Justice Ashcroft Justice

Bush's Attorney General is moving the conservative agenda predicted by critics.

Jul 12, 2001 / Feature / Diana R. Gordon

Questions for Ashcroft Questions for Ashcroft

As the Senate begins its hearings on the nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General, it is important to focus on the different roles that his office plays in the administrati...

Jul 9, 2001 / Leon Friedman

DynCorp’s Drug Problem DynCorp’s Drug Problem

Could the State Department's antidrug contractors in South America possibly be dabbling in narcotics trafficking?

Jul 3, 2001 / Feature / Jason Vest

Death and Texas Death and Texas

The state's justice system crushes poor people like Ernestina Rodriguez.

Jun 28, 2001 / Feature / JoAnn Wypijewski

Friends at Court Friends at Court

The Supreme Court, in the final week of June, handed down three decisions, each of which seems to endorse a valuable social principle. In the first, involving the right...

Jun 28, 2001 / The Editors

Supreme Injustice Supreme Injustice

Click here to review some of the more perceptive comments on the Scalia Five's judicial coup d'etat.

Jun 23, 2001 / Steve Cobble

Death and Disparity Death and Disparity

To write a letter on behalf of Juan Raul Garza, as well as the other prisoners currently on state and federal death row, visit our Death Row Roll Call.

Jun 15, 2001 / David Cole

McVeigh: Done to Death McVeigh: Done to Death

Strange as it may seem, Timothy McVeigh and George W. Bush shared the same analysis of McVeigh's execution Monday morning, June 11, in Terre Haute. The Oklahoma City bomber, inton...

Jun 14, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro

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