Mumia Abu-Jamal
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican political activist, journalist, and convicted murderer of a police officer
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. While on death row, he wrote and commented on the criminal justice system in the United States.
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Abu-Jamal (right), then a reporter for WHYY-TV, interviewing Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers in 1980
Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner
Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge, who signed Abu-Jamal's death warrant on June 1, 1995
A 1995 banner by American muralist Mike Alewitz
Concert at a Free Mumia demonstration in Germany in 2007![An anti-Abu-Jamal T-shirt sold in Philadelphia[106]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/Photo_of_anti_Mumia_Abu_Jamal_T-Shirt.JPG/1280px-Photo_of_anti_Mumia_Abu_Jamal_T-Shirt.JPG)
An anti-Abu-Jamal T-shirt sold in Philadelphia[106]In their own words 9
The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.
"I spend my days preparing for life, not for death" The Guardian, Laura Smith (2007-10-25)
I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death... They haven't stopped me from doing what I want every day.
"I spend my days preparing for life, not for death" The Guardian, Laura Smith (2007-10-25)
The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.
All Things Censored (2001, Seven Stories Press), p. 21
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About this person
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. While on death row, he wrote and commented on the criminal justice system in the United States. After numerous appeals, his death sentence was overturned by a federal court. In 2011, the prosecution agreed to a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. He entered the general prison population early the following year.
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