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Reversal of Fortune?

Mumia’s death sentence is overturned, for now

By Dave Lindorff

After surviving two decades on Pennsylvania’s Death Row, journalist and former Black Panther activist Mumia Abu-Jamal had his death sentence voided on December 19. The ruling was based on a narrow issue involving faulty instructions to the jury by the judge and in the jury verdict form at Abu-Jamal’s 1982 trial, which federal Judge William Yohn said might have incorrectly misled… return to article

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