Jamal Mumia Hart III with his grandfather Mumia Abu-Jamal in 2022 at Pennsylvania State Prison SCI Mahanoy, Courtesy Photo The Neighbor Program, the Pan-African Socialist organization that hosted Free Mumia Day, provides education through its Political Prisoners Program on incarcerated activists still seeking justice. Requests for a new trial have been denied as recently as March when Judge Lucretia Clemons dismissed evidence alleging key witnesses were bribed or coerced. In 2011, Abu-Jamal was resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after the prosecution stopped its pursuit of execution. The high-profile 1982 court case, in which Abu-Jamal was convicted and sentenced to death, has drawn scrutiny over claims of police, prosecutorial and judicial bias and misconduct.Īfter almost two decades on death row, a federal judge in 2001 denied his request for a new trial but overturned the death sentence and granted him a resentencing after finding jurors were given incorrect instructions. The altercation left Abu-Jamal shot in the chest and Faulkner fatally shot in the back and head. 9, 1981, an altercation occurred between Abu-Jamal, his brother William Cook, and police officer Daniel Faulkner.
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