Re: [A-List] Court overturns Mumia Abu-Jamal death sentence

[bar@xxxxxxxxxxx]

The real story is that the Third Circuit denied Mumia Abu Jamal the knew
trial he has been seeking and justly deserves if not outright acquittal on
the frame-up he has faced all these years. But the BBC as usual makes no
comment on how he was framed and the motivations behind it.

Chris

> 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
>