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[A-List] Court overturns Mumia Abu-Jamal death sentence
BBC: US court overturns death sentence
March 28 2008
A US federal appeals court has overturned the death sentence imposed on
former Black Panthers member Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The court said Abu-Jamal's conviction for murdering a Philadelphia
police officer should stand, but that he should have a new sentencing
hearing.
The former radio journalist and activist was sentenced to death for the
murder in 1982.
While in jail he became a leading campaigner against the death penalty.
He appealed against the sentence, on the grounds that racism on the part
of the judge and the prosecutors had corrupted his conviction, which was
by a jury of 10 white and two black people.
In Full: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7317451.stm
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