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ISBN-10: 1155622170
ISBN-13: 9781155622170
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: David Mamet, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Piers Anthony, Trey Anastasio, David Helvarg, William H. Macy, Archie Shepp, Susie Ibarra, David Gallaher, Judith Arcana, Bradford Graves, Jane Shore, Page McConnell, Daniel Boyarin, Stephen C. Smith, Kenneth R. Timmerman, Jared Carter, Linda McCarriston, Mark Doty, Conrad Herwig, Jonathan Katz, Paul Zaloom, Jon Fishman, Geraldine Clinton Little, Wayne Karlin, Oliver Foot, Laura McCullough, Tobias Schneebaum, Mayme Agnew Clayton, Caroline Finkelstein, Larry Feign, Linnea Johnson, James Gahagan, Tim Costello, Elaine… Terranova, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Suzi Wizowaty, Lisel Mueller, Ed Allen, William L. White, Peter Hannan, Frances Olsen, Donald Kofi Tucker, Tony Curtis, Pamela Stewart, Jay Craven, Russell Potter, Esther Wertheimer, John Kasiewicz, Michael Lent, Jared Pappas-Kelley. Excerpt: Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954) was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death. He has been described as "perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate," and his sentence is one of the most debated today. Before his arrest, he was an activist and radio journalist who became President of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists. He was a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970. Since his conviction, his case has become an international cause celebre, and he has become a controversial cultural icon. Supporters and opponents disagree on the appropriateness of the death penalty, whether he is guilty, or whether he received a fair trial. During his imprisonment he has published several books and other commentaries, notably Live from Death Row (1995). Since 1995, Abu-Jamal, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections #AM8335, has been incarcerated at Pennsylvania's SCI Greene, where most of the state's capital case inm...