DEATH PENALTY

  • Democracy Now! January 15, 2003

    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 15, 1929 April 4, 1968: To celebrate his birthday, we hear King outline his opposition to war; Sarah Jones performs Waking The American Dream, about new immigrants experience in America; she also discusses The Exonerated, a play about innocent death row prisoners; Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between…

  • Democracy Now! January 13, 2003

    Illinois governor commutes sentences of 167 inmates on death row; The United States listed [North Korea] as part of an ‘axis of evil’ and singled it out as a target of pre-emptive nuclear attack, openly declaring a nuclear war : a discussion about North Korea s perspective on the nuclear stand-off with the Bush administration;…

  • Democracy Now! August 28, 2002

    YOUNG PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE JUVENILE DEATH PENALTY/A DATABASE OF POTENTIAL CRIMINALS |24-year-old Toronto Patterson is set to die today at the hands of the State of Texas for a crime he is accused of committing when he was 17: we ll hear his story in his own words, and talk to the young people…

  • Democracy Now! July 30, 2002

    A MUMIA-ABU JAMAL SPECIAL |Mumia is still on death row, after 20 years. Today, we are joined by the French National Collective To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal. Activist Julia Wright, daughter of the renowned writer and anti-death penalty activist Richard Wright, leads a delegation to see Mumia on Pennsylvania’s death row. All that and more coming…

  • Democracy Now! Ju;y 02, 2002

    NEW YORK JUDGE DECLARES THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY UNCONSTITUTIONAL /US BOMBS A WEDDING PARTY IN AFGHANISTAN |Today we’ll hear from Masuda Sultan, an Afghan-American woman who lost 19 members of her family during US military strikes on Afghanistan. The US bombs a wedding party in Afghanistan. The death toll: estimates range between 40 and 250.…

  • Democracy Now! June 21, 2002

    THE PEOPLE’ HISTORIAN: HOWARD ZINN |The Supreme Court rules that executing mentally retarded people is unconstitutionally cruel, giving scores of inmates on death row the possibility of a reprieve. We’ll hear the last words of a mentally retarded man executed in Georgia in 1986. And then, they call him the people’s historian. Today, we spend…

  • Lawyers Guild Program April 25, 2002 On Movement To Abolish The Death Penalty

    Lawyers Guild Program April 25, 2002 On Movement To Abolish The Death Penalty. Recorded April 18, 2002 at Annual Benefit of Death Penalty Focus org.

  • Democracy Now! April 24, 2002

    Thomas Concannon has been sentenced to die. He has done nothing wrong, he has committed no crime. He simply got sick under the wrong insurance plan. Today, from one death row to another: today is the birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal. He has been on death row for twenty-one years. |9:01-9:06 Headlines: 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music…

  • Democracy Now! March 29, 2002

    Israel attacks Yasser Arafat headquarters in Ramallah, Justice department will seek death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui, accused of being the 20th hijacker in the September 11 attacks. an exclusive interview with Moussaouis mother, Aicha Elouassi. U.S. army will incinerate deadly nerve gas weapons in a metropolitan area of Alabama, but civilians arent to worry: the…

  • Democracy Now! February 11, 2002

    Thomas Miller El death penalty case (to die February 21st) : GUESTS JAMES LIEBMAN; JAVIER CORCUERA (Peru film maker) ,MARIA CARRION, JIM MARCUS. |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES A new study to be released today says that death sentences are more likely to be reversed in areas that use the death penalty, have higher African American populations, and…