Tag: Mumia Abu-Jamal
Posted on Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 03:31:18 PM EST
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Mumia Abu-Jamal, on death row in PA for 25 years, will not get a new trial. The Supreme Court rejected his petition today.
The petition was based on the exclusion of African-Americans from his jury. Last year, the Third Circuit refused to reinstate his death sentence.
But the epic struggle over the fate of Abu-Jamal, who has become an international symbol in the debate about the death penalty, is not over. The nation's high court is still weighing the state's petition to have his death sentence reinstated.
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Posted on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 07:32:02 PM EST
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Some good news for Mumia Abu-Jamal today -- but not enough. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled he either has to get a new jury sentencing trial or his sentence will be life without parole, rather than death.
"The jury instructions and the verdict form created a reasonable likelihood that the jury believed it was precluded from finding a mitigating circumstance that had not been unanimously agreed upon," wrote Chief Judge Anthony J. Scirica in the 77-page opinion.
One of the judges on the panel would have granted a new trial in the guilt phase as well: [More..]
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