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Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he grew up.He has a younger brother named William. They attended local public schools. In 1968, a high school teacher, a Kenyan man instructing a class on African cultures, encouraged the students to take African or Arabic names for classroom use; he gave Cook the name "Mumia". [10]
1981, December 9: Faulkner shot and killed by Mumia Abu-Jamal. 1982, June 17 – July 3: Trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Convicted and sentenced to death. 1989, March 6: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania considers and denies the appeal of the sentence. 1990, October 1: Supreme Court of the United States denies petition for writ of certiorari.
Former death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, has asked a Philadelphia judge to give him the chance to appeal yet again.
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty! New York : Spartacist Pub., 1998 #15; South African Workers Battle ANC Neo-Apartheid Rule New York : Spartacist Pub., 2001 #16 [No title] New York : Spartacist Pub., 2003 #17 [No title] New York : Spartacist Pub., 2005 #18 [No title] New York : Spartacist Pub., 2006 #19
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University has acquired a trove of records, writings and artwork from Mumia Abu-Jamal, a political The post Brown U. buys 60 boxes of ex-Black Panther Mumia Abu ...
Arnold Beverly is a Philadelphia man who rose to prominence during the legal appeals following the 1982 trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal.In 1999, Beverly signed an affidavit confessing to the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner.
Live from Death Row, published in May 1995, is a memoir by Mumia Abu-Jamal, an American journalist and activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He is known for having been convicted of the murder of a city police officer and sentenced to death in 1982, in a trial that Amnesty International suspected of lacking impartiality.
Unlike the others, Moser wanted to be executed. Fellow death row inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was scheduled for execution two days after Moser, won a stay of execution on August 7. [14] Following the stay, Abu-Jamal and his supporters requested and encouraged Moser to fight to save his own life. Ultimately, Moser rejected their requests. [15]