American Justice Season 3

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Season 3

Air date: 1994-01-05

Episodes: 27

Episodes

E1: Mass Murder: An American Tragedy

Charles Whitman kills his mother and wife, then fires from a University of Texas tower.

Air date: 1994-01-05

E2: The Hostage Takers

Prominent cases show how police deal with hostage situations.

Air date: 1994-01-12

E3: The Wrong Man

Profiles of people who have been falsely accused and imprisoned.

Air date: 1994-01-19

E4: Great Heists

In 1950 the Brinks robbery nets $2.8

Air date: 1994-01-26

E5: Fugitives

How the American legal system deals with fugitives, focusing on John List, a killer who eluded the FBI for more than a decade.

Air date: 1994-02-02

E6: Death Penalty

Capital punishment; Caryl Chessman; Gary Gilmore; Sister Helen Prejean ministers to death-row inmates.

Air date: 1994-02-09

E7: Juvenile Justice

Youthful offenders; teens shoot British tourist.

Air date: 1994-02-23

E8: Mob Rats

Joseph Valachi and Peter Maas are featured in this look at mobsters who turn against fellow criminals and help law enforcement agencies convict them.

Air date: 1994-03-02

E10: War Crimes

Nuremberg, My Lai and other war-crime trials.

Air date: 1994-03-30

E11: Satan, Rituals and Abuse

Cases of psychological manipulation.

Air date: 1994-04-06

E12: Lorena Bobbitt: Women and Violence

Increasing violence in society; battered women.

Air date: 1994-04-13

E13: Prison Justice

Violence and behavior codes in America's prisons.

Air date: 1994-04-20

E14: Pleading Insane

John Hinckley Jr.; Daniel Sickles kills Francis Scott Key's son; the McNaughton rule; Kimberly Martin.

Air date: 1994-05-04

E15: Cops on Trial

Frank Serpico and Robert Leuci uncover corruption in the New York Police Department.

Air date: 1994-05-18

E16: Fighting Words: The First Amendment

The Supreme Court broadly defines free speech; Nazis march in Skokie, Ill.

Air date: 1994-06-01

E17: Jim Bakker: Crime in the Name of God

Con artists who use religion for gain.

Air date: 1994-06-15

E18: The Great Brink's Heist

In one of the most daring robberies in history, the 1950 Brink's robbery netted thieves more than $2.7 million.

Air date: 1994-07-06

E19: Reginald Denny: Jury Under Siege

Media pressure, fear and prejudice may affect jury decisions.

Air date: 1994-07-13

E20: Attack at Waco

How the authorities may have misjudged David Koresh and the situation at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

Air date: 1994-08-03

E21: Sex, Lies and Harassment

The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas case brings sexual-harassment issues under scrutiny.

Air date: 1994-08-17

E22: Gangbusters

New York gang moves into Boston; Iowa street gang is implicated in a murder.

Air date: 1994-09-07

E23: The Attica Riot: Chaos Behind Bars

Prison uprisings; 1971 Attica riot; New Mexico State Penitentiary.

Air date: 1994-09-14

E24: Private Eyes

Private investigators are the cowboys of law enforcement.

Air date: 1994-09-21

E25: Prostitution: Sex and the Law

Profiling the lives of street-corner hookers and high-class Hollywood call girls and examining how they are brought to justice.

Air date: 1994-10-19

E26: The Sting

Sting operations; Marion Barry; John DeLorean.

Air date: 1994-11-23

E27: Riot: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial

Events leading up to Chicago's 1968 anti-war riots; the "conspiracy to commit riot" trials.

Air date: 1994-11-30

E28: Divorce Wars

An examination of the evolution of divorce in the United States.

Air date: 1994-12-14