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Dead Men Waiting
The Tulsa World "looked at why the pace of executions had remained unabated in Oklahoma, despite growing concerns elsewhere that the capital punishment system was inherently flawed . . . Described the emotional impact of executions, discussed the types of cases that lead to capital convictions and illustrated the uneven application of justice in the same crime." Reporters also investigated inmate competency, prosecutor misconduct, reviewed cases of those executed in the past decade and researched the role of DNA in such cases. "We also took readers into the penitentiary and outside on the grounds during an execution. Sidebars looked at the appeals process, key decisions in modern death penalty cases and victims' families."
Tags: Department of Corrections; death penalty; capital punishment
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Nursing Home Investigation
An Extra investigation of Oklahoma nursing homes reveals that they fail to do criminal background checks. The reporter "assumes the identity of a three-time convicted felon and applies for jobs at nursing homes. Only one out of eight does the required criminal background check and refuses to hire Chuck. All of the rest place their patients in harm's way needlessly."
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT elderly care criminal background checks Tulsa Christian Care Center
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Bad Apples: School Safeguards Put to Test
The series found that despite school districts insistence that their background checks were thorough, criminals were still being hired to work with children. The Tulsa World found one such employee, an elementary school bus driver, was convicted of armed robbery after an episode that involved the shooting of a Kansas trooper during the getaway.
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No title (id: 13693)
EXTRA investigates allegations of the ATF having knowledge of a bomb in the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City prior to the explosion. After gathering several eye-witness accounts, EXTRA concluded the government knew about the bomb with ample time to warn the intended victims. The investigation also discovered that Timothy McVeigh and two others were at a Tulsa strip club 8 days before the bombing, and that eye-witnesses say that one of the three men began bragging that they would be famous on April 19, 1995. (November 20, 1996)
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No title (id: 12627)
The project examined six years of Tulsa homicides in a six-part series. The newspaper tracked killings and defendants through the investigation, court and prison. The series found that cases are shaped and sometimes derailed by a fragmented system of competing interests, personnel turnover, taxing caseloads and glutted prisons. (Nov. 12 - 17, 1995)
Tags: Fallis CAR How we deal with homocide: murder among us Contest entry 38 pgs.
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No title (id: 8801)
Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune gives account of the efforts by the Church of of Scientology to open a drug-treatment center in a northern Oklahoma town; the proposed Narcanon Chilocco New Life Center encountered opposition from state agencies and local officials who raised concerns as to the credibility of the center, March 9 - 12, 1992.
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No title (id: 8475)
Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune reports on lead contamination from a zinc manufacturing plant in Bartlesville, Okla., and how the victims of the contamination are the residents of a predominently black neighborhood, which is downwind of the plant, Aug. 26 - 30, 1991.
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No title (id: 8278)
KTUL-TV (Tulsa, Okla.) investigates a uranium-processing plant in eastern Oklahoma and finds that the plant's employees are needlessly at risk of contamination; finds that the company lied to federal regulators; company disposes of its waste by calling it "fertilizer" and spraying it on nearby land, April 24 - 26, 1991.
Tags: TAPE
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Creating a lost generation
Tulsa Tribune evaluates the influx of drug-damaged babies on the medical and legal system and the emotional toll such babies take on foster and birth parents.
Tags: DHS; handicapped persons; crack; drug abuse; custody
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Is It a License to Steal?
"'Is It a License to Steal?' is a seven-part investigative report which looks into the questionable practices of auto tag agencies in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. Research on the report took eight months and led to a state audit, FBI and IRS probes."