Word: mumia
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Convicted Philadelphia cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist active in radical black politics, obtained an indefinite stay of execution so he can pursue an appeal. Abu-Jamal, whose claims of innocence have become an international cause celebre, maintains he was railroaded by the criminal-justice system because of his politics...
...MUMIA ABU-JAMAL Convicted murderer/liberal cause celebre wins stay of execution...
Like rival clans thrust together at gunpoint, the two halves of a Philadelphia courtroom audience watched each other warily last week, begrudging good behavior. Then a convict with cascading dreadlocks entered, and the people to the right of the aisle erupted. "Free Mumia!" they screamed. "Mumia, we love you!" Women blew kisses. Men punched the air with salutes. To the left of the aisle, the other half watched, silently enraged that the defendant might get another chance...
...catalyst of these emotions is Mumia Abu-Jamal, 41, a prizewinning journalist. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17 for a crime he insists he did not commit: the 1981 slaying of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Sympathizers around the globe from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg...
...public discussion focused on the current status of Black journalist and community activist Mumia Abu-Jabal's execution date. Abu-Jamal faces the death penalty for killing a white Philadelphia police officer...