Whereas, he is innocent of the charge of killing a police officer, framed up and sentenced to death in 1982 by a racist judicial system without any corroborating physical evidence and on false testimony by coerced witnesses and by suppressing evidence of his innocence, including witnesses who said Mumia was not the shooter and the confession of a man that he, not Mumia, shot and killed the police officer, and
Whereas, Mumia Abu-Jamal since he was a 15 year old member of the Black Panther Party was targeted by the FBI’s counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) and the notoriously corrupt Philadelphia police department, which was repeatedly investigated by the federal government, and
Whereas, Mumia’s 1981 trial before racist judge Sabo, known for sending more men to death row than any other judge in the U.S., who stated before Mumia’s trial that he was going “to help them fry the n—-r;” and a jury selected by excluding Black people; and
Whereas, Mumia remained on death row for nearly 30 years, saved from execution in 1995 and 1999 by international mass protest supported by trade unions and despite a December 2001 federal court ruling that Mumia’s death sentence was illegal, Mumia remained in solitary confinement on death row, until 2012 when he was re-sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and...