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March 27th, 2008 | #1 |
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Court: Mumia Abu-Jamal Deserves New Hearing
A federal appeals court on Thursday said former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal cannot be executed for murdering a Philadelphia police officer without a new penalty hearing.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Abu-Jamal's conviction should stand, but that he should get a new sentencing hearing because of flawed jury instructions. If prosecutors don't want to give him a new death penalty hearing, Abu-Jamal would be sentenced automatically to life in prison. Abu-Jamal, 53, once a radio reporter, has attracted a legion of artists and activists to his cause in a quarter-century on death row. A Philadelphia jury convicted him in 1982 of killing Officer Daniel Faulkner, 25, after the patrolman pulled over Abu-Jamal's brother in an overnight traffic stop. He had appealed, arguing that racism by the judge and prosecutors corrupted his conviction at the hands of a mostly white jury. Prosecutors, meanwhile, had appealed a federal judge's 2001 decision to grant Abu-Jamal a new sentencing hearing because of the jury instructions. http://www.comcast.net/news/articles...mia.Abu.Jamal/ |
October 2nd, 2014 | #2 |
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Negro Murderer to Address College Victims
A man convicted of murdering a Philadelphia police officer more than 30 years ago has been chosen by students to be the commencement speaker at Goddard College in Vermont, the school announced on Monday.
http://modernheretic3000.blogspot.co...s-college.html
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They haven't given that dirty overhyped nigger the Tookie treatment yet?
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