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Twenty-five years after Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge launched its genocide campaign, could a war-crimes trial finally be a reality?
By Vivienne Walt
December 18, 2000
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Wrongly convicted, they sat on death row for years. Extraordinary legal measures saved their lives. A new play confronts us with their nightmares.
By Amy Goldwasser
October 20, 2000
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By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
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September 11, 2000
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A friend of the Black Dahlia fingers a surprising suspect in the legendary unsolved murder: Orson Welles.
By Jeff Chorney
August 16, 2000
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Nearly a million mothers take their gun control message to Washington while the Second Amendment Sisters stage a feisty sideshow.
By Alexandra Starr
May 15, 2000
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The baby's abuser is still uncharged, but the issue of his death -- in surrender or at the end of painful medical heroics -- finally reaches the court.
By Beth Broeker
April 25, 2000
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The place I share with Timothy McVeigh.
By Mark Phillips
April 19, 2000
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Two new books serve up hair-raising histories of maritime cannibalism with all the gory details.
By Mark Schone
April 13, 2000
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A death row inmate in Tennessee could be the last to die in Ol' Sparky, unless new evidence can get him a retrial.
By Ashley Fantz
March 20, 2000
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A grisly manuscript about killing one's wife gets another look since the author killed his.
By Laura Martz
March 7, 2000
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Is the public tiring of the crackdown on kids?
By Fiona Morgan
March 3, 2000
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The parents of a murderer sue adoption workers, claiming they should have been told about the boy's mentally ill birth mother.
By Beth Broeker
February 24, 2000
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While teens get lethal injection for their crimes, Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, 39, could become the oldest murder defendant in juvenile court -- such is justice for the rich.
By Bruce Shapiro
January 26, 2000
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These pernicious moments brought to you by your elected leaders. PLUS: Sisterhood pyramid schemes, supermarket warfare and a man and his hooptie.
By Jenn Shreve
January 21, 2000
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Justice for the widow of a dead police officer, cut down in the prime of his life, will not be served by executing a framed man, even if he's guilty.
By Debra Dickerson
December 29, 1999
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Mumia Abu-Jamal may be a symbol of racism to the celebrity set, but to most black people, he's just a scary character who probably got what he deserved.
By Debra Dickerson
December 21, 1999
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American Indians seek to avenge the murder of one of their leaders by leftist rebels.
By Ana Arana
December 14, 1999
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In an exhaustive -- and exhausting -- book on motherhood, anthropologist Sara Blaffer Hrdy breaks some big news: There is no such thing as maternal instinct.
By Susan Caba
December 9, 1999
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Do Catholics deserve "Dogma"? Plus: You can't define the Net by its ghettos; what did the Bible tell white supremacist killers?
Letters to the Editor
November 16, 1999
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The Shepard family spares the life of their son's killer.
By Dave Cullen
November 5, 1999
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Do Web sites want a community they can't control? Plus: Misplaced sympathy in Matthew Shepard murder; Mr. Blue should recognize teen's privacy.
Letters to the Editor
October 27, 1999
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In an effort to keep their client from the death penalty, defense lawyers in the Matthew Shepard murder trial evoke a strange "gay panic" defense.
By Dave Cullen
October 26, 1999
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Hate crime? Gay panic? Aaron McKinney's lawyer isn't arguing about who killed Matthew Shepard. But the question of what motivated the crime is a matter of life and death.
By Dave Cullen
October 25, 1999
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Two frat brothers make a healing pilgrimage to a legendary renegade's retreat in the heart of the Everglades.
By Bill Belleville
October 16, 1999
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After a doctor injected him with a strange substance, the patient couldn't scream or move.
By James B. Stewart
September 2, 1999
Cambodian justice
The exonerated
Citizen Killer?
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