The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal Information Booklet.pdf pld991

Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954) is an American convict, serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He was originally sentenced to death at his first trial in July 1982, before his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2012. Described as "perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate" in the United States, supporters and detractors have disagreed on his guilt, whether he received a fair trial, and the appropriateness of the death penalty