Rosita Johnson, People’s Weekly World
Following the decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals that Mumia Abu-Jamal must be sentenced to life in prison or receive a new sentencing trial, his attorney and his supporters are vowing to continue the fight for his exoneration.
Abu-Jamal has been on death row for nearly 26 years, after being convicted in the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled March 27 that Abu-Jamal must be sentenced to life in prison or receive a new sentencing trial by jury in Philadelphia. By a 2-1 decision the panel upheld his conviction in the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.
