Mumia Abu-Jamal: Awaiting the Decision Resource Type: Article Published: 1998 AT PRESS TIME internationally renowned author and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal still waits on Pennsylvania's death row for the state Supreme Court to issue a verdict on his appeal for a new trial. There are at least five ways the court can rule:
Too Big to Jail Not Too Big to Resist Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 US rich evade punishment while the poor are criminalized in the two-tier justice system.
What Justice Breyer's Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty's Defenders Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Just after 2 a.m. on Monday, June 29, 2015 -- some seven hours before the U.S. Supreme Court would reject the latest challenge to the death penalty in Glossip v. Gross -- former death row prisoner Glenn Ford died in Louisiana. Ford, 65, left prison with stage four lung cancer in 2014, after spending almost 30 years facing execution for a crime he did not commit.
Why Not Jail? Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance, and Government Inaction Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Analyzes five industrial catastrophes that have killed or sickened consumers and workers or caused irrevocable harm to the environment. Steinzor recommends innovative interpretations of existing laws to elevate the prosecution of white-collar crime at the federal and state levels.