One of Pennsylvania’s most renowned death row cases will be retried in the court of public opinion on Tuesday, Sept. 21 when two new films with clashing views on the guilt or innocence of Mumia Abu-Jamal debut simultaneously.

History professor Johanna Fernandez and filmmaker Kouross Esmaeli deliver a primer on the nearly 30-year-old case in the thoughtful "Justice on Trial." Raising fundamental questions about the workings of the criminal justice system and the Abu-Jamal case – from sentencing to subsequent appeals – Justice frames the legal and factual arguments for reasonable doubt about the fairness of the guilty verdict.

The screening of "Justice" occurs the same day that local filmmaker Tigre Hill premieres "The Barrel of a Gun," a narrative that revisits the contentions of the police and prosecution that paint Abu-Jamal, a one-time radio reporter, as a cold-blooded cop killer.

“Effectively addressing this fundamental question of fairness is in the best interests of every American citizen – black, white, Latino or Asian,” said theologian and ethicist Mark Lewis Taylor of Princeton Theological Seminary. “The dispensing of justice and the creation of a sense of justice among the public is the moral bedrock of American democratic society.”

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