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October 12, 2011

Supreme Court Decision Rejects Death Penalty for Mumia 
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The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Philadelphia prosecutors
of a lower court ruling that declared the death sentence of Pennsylvania
prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal unconstitutional. Abu-Jamal is a former Black
Panther and journalist. For decades, he has argued racism by the trial
judge and prosecutors led to his 1982 conviction of killing Philadelphia
police officer Daniel Faulkner. The ruling means Mumia will be
automatically sentenced to life in prison unless prosecutors attempt to
seek the death penalty in front of a new jury.



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