Capital punishment.

  • Democracy Now! December 11, 1998

    Clinton Impeachment Hearings; Texas Execution of Canadian Postponed |(14 Minutes) Clinton Impeachment Hearings The House Judiciary Committee weighed final arguents yesterday over alleged “high crimes and misdemeanors” by President Clinton. Speaker Newt Gingrich notified the full House to prepare for a historic impeachment vote next week. Several official sources said Democrats laboring to fain support…

  • Democracy Now!

    Teamsters and James Hoffa; Hurricane Carter and the Death Penalty; Clinton Impeachment |(18 Minutes) Teamsters and James Hoffa Forty-one years after his famous father was elected to the same post, James P. Hoffa this weekend won the presidency of the Teamsters Union. GUEST: Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City University of NY…

  • Democracy Now! November 17, 1998

    Texaco Lawsuit; Campaign to End the Death Penalty; Update on Iraq/Robert Fiske on the Middle East; Tyrone Gilliam Execution in Maryland |(14 Minutes) Texaco Lawsuit A Federal District Court judge will be hearing arguments today on a class action suit against Texaco brought about by indigenous communities from Ecuador’s Amazon basin. GUEST: Joseph Kohn, lead…

  • Democracy Now! December 1, 1998

    World Aids Day; Monthly Commentary by Mumia Abu Jamal; Holocaust Reparations / Arafat in Washington |(33 Minutes) World Aids Day World Aids Day and the poor. as over 95% of HIV positive people in the world are unable to afford drug costs, protesters in the US target pharmaceutical giant DuPont for its high prices. GUEST:…

  • Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Mumia Abu Jamal The Pennsylvania courts have denied Mumia’s appeal for a retrial–an appeal that was endorsed by leaders world wide, including Nelson Mandela.

  • Pile-up on death row / Burton Wolf ; interviewed by Jan Legnitto.

    Interview with author Burton Wolf and Capital punishment in California prisons.|PILE-UP ON DEATH ROW / Burton Wolf| interviewed by Jan Legnitto. – Interview with author Burton Wolf about Capital punishment in California prisons. – RECORDED: KPFA, 21 Feb. 1991. BROADCAST: 21 Feb. 1991.

  • Civil disorders and the impact of the death penalty / Jack Himmelstein.

    Attorney for the NAACP legal defense fund discusses how the return of the death penalty would increase racial tensions.

  • Marlon Brando on the Caryl Chessman execution.

    Brando evaluates the implication’s of Chessman’s execution.|MARLON BRANDO ON THE CARYL CHESSMAN EXECUTION. – Actor and political activist Marlon Brando speaks on the moral and political implications of the controversial execution of Caryl Chessman in California. – BROADCAST: KPFA, 12 Dec. 1968