DOCUMENTS IN THE NEWS - 2001
Crime and Domestic Terrorism
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Last updated on May 26,
2002
Chandra Levy
- Timeline of disappearance and latest news
- E-mail groups and water cooler discussion
Gary Condit
- House of Representatives web site
- Articles about Condit, his assistance to his constituents
- Links to missing children information
Condit Media Blitz
Washington
D.C.
Metropolitan Police
- Photo of Chandra Levy and description
- Press release on finding her remains
- Contacts for further information
Background
- Robert Phillip Hanssen, a 27-year veteran of the FBI was arrested in
February 2001 as a Russian spy
FBI
Affadavit
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation's affadavit for Hanssen's arrest
- Press conference announcing the arrest and photographs
Webster
Commission Review of FBI Security
- Report blames lax FBI security in criminal investigations for the work
of Robert Hanssen
- Written by Judge William Webster and released in April 2002
- Another Copy
International
Crime Threat Assessment
- Clinton Administration report released on December 31, 2000
- Cites arms, drug and refugee smuggling as well as counterfeiting as
major international crimes
- Warns of international crime cartels
- Recommends economic isolation of rogue nations supporting crime cartels
- Also available in HTML
Format and divided by chapter
Background
- Timothy McVeigh was scheduled to be executive on May 16, 2001 for
engineering the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
- Execution delayed until June 11, 2001 due to discovery of FBI
documents which had not been turned over to the defense
- McVeigh was executed at 7:14 a.m. CDT on June 11; he said
nothing; was given last rites
Execution of Timothy
McVeigh (CNN)
- Timeline of McVeigh's activities in the Oklahoma City bombing
- Biography
- Execution procedures and previous federal executions
- Stories of the Oklahoma City Bombing
Justice Department Web Site
Legal
Documents (FindLaw)
- Legal documents from 2001 regarding broadcast of execution
- Briefs and decisions on a stay of execution
Yahoo
News Coverage
- Summarizes Attorney General's statement about additional documents
found
- Does not plan to delay execution
- Related Mcveigh documents
Death Penalty Laws
- Federal
- Annotated
Constitution
- Traces the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual
punishment
- Identifies court cases which changed the interpretation
- Federal
Death Penalty Act of 1994
- This is Title VI of the Violent Crime Act of 1994 (PL 103-322)
- Imposes federal death penalty for certain offenses
- Supreme
Court Cases (Cornell)
- Lists the major historic cases on capital punishment
- Provides syllabus and full text of decisions
- Furman v. Georgia (1972) said capital punishment is a cruel and
unusual punishment in some cases
- Gregg v. Georgia (1976) said capital punishment is not cruel and
unusual in other cases
- State
- International
- Execution of Timothy
McVeigh (CNN)
- Pop-up box provides a world map of countries which practice the death
penalty, those which have it but don't practice it, and those which don't
have it
- Click on a color for a list of countries
Death Penalty
Statistics
- Broken System: Error Rates
in Capital
Cases
- Report issued by the Columbia University Justice Project on June 12
- Known as the Liebman Study
- Shows that 68% of death penalty verdicts were thrown out when appealed
- 7% of cases were let go
- Predominant cause is poor defense lawyers
- Rates states on death penalty errors
- Capital
Punishment Statistics (BJS)
- National data on executions since 1930 and current prisoners on
death row
- State by state executions for last 30 years and state law
- Race and sex data, reasons for execution
- Various formats: text, pdf, and spreadsheet
- Survey of
the
Federal Death Penalty System (Dept. of
Justice)
- Review decision to seek the death penalty in federal
courts, 1988-2000
- Statistics on Justice Dept. attorneys to seek death penalty
by race
of defendant and U.S. Attorney District
Death Penalty Debate
- MIRLYN-Web
- Search for books on the subject
- Keywords include: death w penalty and united w
states
- Main subject heading: capital punishment--united
states
- Proquest
(UMich Only)
- Search for newspaper and scholarly articles
- Sample search: (death penalty or capital punishment) and
constitution
- CQ
Researcher (UMich Only)
- Search for the topic Death Penalty
- March 10, 1995 provides background, a chronology, bibliography, and
quotations from Supreme Court justices
- Death
Penalty (SpeakOut)
- Two sides of various death penalty issues (constitutionality, DNA
testing, youth execution)
- Numerous links with a view
- Death
Penalty Information Center
- Executives by method and by state
- Laws of individual states and the number of people on death row by
race and gender
- Names of people executed since 1976
- Data on special topics: women, juveniles, the mentally retarded,
costs, race, and innocence
- Gallup
Polls
- Graph showing American opinion on the death penalty since 1936
- Specific polls since 1999, including Timothy McVeigh and Juan
Garza
- Political
Information
- Indexes 5,000 public policy web sites with various views
- Search death penalty
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