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New Sentencing Hearing Ordered for Mumia Abu-Jamal

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The U.S. Third Court of Appeals has ordered a new sentencing phase trial in a long-running, controversial Philadelphia death penalty case.  The opinion is here. The AP dispatch is, "Court: Mumia Deserves New Hearing."Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal cannot be executed for murdering a Philadelphia police officer unless a new penalty hearing is held, a federal appeals court said Thursday. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Abu-Jamal's conviction but said he should get a new sentencing hearing because of flawed jury instructions. If prosecutors don't want to give him a new death penalty hearing, Abu-Jamal would be sentenced automatically to life in prison. Prosecutors are weighing their options, Assistant District Attorney Hugh Burns Jr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).

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