American Justice Season 3: Episode Guide & Ratings

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

Prominent cases show how police deal with hostage situations.

Profiles of people who have been falsely accused and imprisoned.

In 1950 the Brinks robbery nets $2.8

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

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

Youthful offenders; teens shoot British tourist.

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

Nuremberg, My Lai and other war-crime trials.

Cases of psychological manipulation.

Increasing violence in society; battered women.

Violence and behavior codes in America's prisons.

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

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

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

Con artists who use religion for gain.

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

Media pressure, fear and prejudice may affect jury decisions.

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

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

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

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

Private investigators are the cowboys of law enforcement.

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

Sting operations; Marion Barry; John DeLorean.

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