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Mumia Abu-Jamal

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The Philadelphia Inquirer has, "Pa. court rebuffs Abu-Jamal on bid for perjury hearing."Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is on death row for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, lost another round in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday even as he awaits a pivotal ruling from a federal appeals court. The state's highest court rejected Abu-Jamal's request for a hearing into his contention that witnesses in his case committed perjury. The justices concluded that he had waited too long before raising his arguments. In his quarter-century of appeals, Abu-Jamal, 53, has become the focus of an international debate about the death penalty, with supporters around the world questioning whether he received a fair trial or might even be innocent.continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).