The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance

The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance

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Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America.
Mumia Abu Jamal, black, was convicted and sentenced to death in July 1982 for the murder...more
Paperback, 64 pages
Published January 20th 2001 by Seven Stories Press
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Valerie
The .pdf version of this book is not very satisfactory. It's free for downloading, but it doesn't include any pictures or the resource list which is discussed in the text.

I wish I could say I found this surprising, but I can't. This story is drearily familiar. There doesn't seem to have been any real attempt to find out what happened: the nearest guy (who was seriously wounded, and immediately hospitalized) was just glommed on to. There were no ballistics tests, and Mumia was not even given a g...more
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