Nov 28, 2012
This essay is adapted from a presentation J. Patrick O’Connor gave at the Collier County, Florida, Main Library on October 16, 2012.
by J. Patrick O’Connor
The United States operates the largest criminal justice system in the world, incarcerating 2.3 million people in over...
Jul 25, 2012
Updated January 26, 2013 and March 13, 2013
The Century 16 theater in Aurora CO
The mass murder in Aurora, Colorado was as senseless and as inevitable as any of the mass murders that preceded it. In the United States it is only a matter of time and place when the next gunman...
Jan 30, 2012
Special to Crime Magazine
An excerpt from the recently released book Scapegoat: The Chino Hills Murders and the Framing of Kevin Cooper by J. Patrick O’Connor, editor of Crime Magazine. Published in January of 2012 by Strategic Media Books, Scapegoat is available at...
Oct 13, 2009
(The Lyons Press) by J. Patrick O'Connor Vendetta There's a great deal to admire about Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner who was shot to death on December 9, 1981. Less than six months later she bravely sat through the entire...
Oct 13, 2009
April 4, 2009
Mumia Abu-Jamal
by J. Patrick O'Connor
Since his conviction in 1982 for the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, Mumia Abu-Jamal, through his numerous books, essays and radio commentaries, has become the face of the anti-death penalty...
Oct 9, 2009
For years, the Catholic brother in charge of a Kansas City home for developmentally disabled men had embezzled his way to a fortune. When the board of directors found out, its cover-up – with the help of The Kansas City Star – was as bold as the theft.
by J. Patrick O'...
Sep 12, 2009
May 1, 2009
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Not even the U.S. Supreme Court is immune from “the Mumia Exception.” On April 6, 2009 the high court denied Abu-Jamal’s request for a Writ of Certiorari, scuttling his last chance for justice.
by J. Patrick O’Connor
Since his conviction in...
Apr 30, 2009
May 7, 1999 Updated 8/30/06; 07/20/08; 1/30/13 and 10/25/13by J. J. Maloney & J. Patrick O'ConnorRelated Story: Solving the JonBenet Case by Ryan Ross. (04/14/03)Editor's Note:The Boulder Daily Camera reported on January 27, 2013 that the Boulder Grand Jury...
Apr 24, 2009
April 5, 2009
Mumia Abu-Jamal's 27 years on Death Row for a murder he did not commit would have turned almost anyone else into an embittered, defeated man. Instead, he has remained what he always was, "the voice of the voiceless," as he demonstrates yet again in his most...