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robert1107 | 11.20.2008
Urgent HOW CAN SUCH INJUSTICES HAPPEN? Having read about the death row prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, and having spent many hours reading through transcripts of this case, I have become very concerned of the obvious racism here. Due also to Mumia being a very good journalist highlighting the plight of the socio-economic conditions for African-Americans in their struggle for equality his cards have been so obviously
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Dr. Maulana Karenga | 11.01.2008
It cannot be easy to live daily as a dead man walking, to have said good-bye to family, friends and supporters three times and to have waited to be walked to the chamber of horrors called the execution room and there have your life taken even though you are innocent and be unable to do anything about it. And so one can only admire the internal strength of Troy Davis, what he calls his “never ending faith”.
Since Mumia wrote this new essay, Troy Davis was granted a temporary stay of execution, after his lawyers filed a new claim based on Davis' innocence. Take Action via Amnesty International, NCADP, or Troy Davis' site.
Watch the Democracy Now! show from the morning of Oct. 24 (just hours before the stay was granted), and previous shows from Sept. 23 (parts 1 and 2) and Sept. 12. Read Kenneth Foster Jr.'s message and a letter from Troy Davis. [col. writ. 10/22/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal Once again, the power of the people has been able to stop another racist murder at the hands if the US Govt, at least for now, because the stay is temporary. We must keep pressure on to make sure that Davis is never executed, and also that he gets a new trial. The following letter was written by Troy Davis on September 22. Two hours before he was to be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution to consider his appeal. Their decision is expected soon. To all, Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed by the state of Georgia on September 23, even though his serious claims of innocence have never been heard in court. Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed by the state of Georgia on September 23, even though his serious claims of innocence have never been heard in court. On March 27, the U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia reaffirmed the frame-up conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther Party spokesman and world-renowned radical journalist who has been locked up on Pennsylvania’s death row for more than a quarter century. After previously rejecting Mumia’s request to present evidence of his innocence, as well as a host of issues showing that he was railroaded by a racist court, the Court turned down Mumia’s request for a new trial. It upheld the 2001 ruling by a federal district judge that ordered a new hearing on the sentence, but limited the “choice” to the living hell of life imprisonment without parole ... or execution. Mumia is innocent. He was declared guilty and sentenced to die because of his revolutionary politics and because for years he had been a thorn in the side of the racist rulers of the misnamed “city of brotherly love.” Around the world, millions have come out in defense of Jamal. This latest ruling, like all those that preceded it, shows that the exploited and oppressed must have no faith in the racist injustice system. We call on the workers movement to mobilize its power to free Mumia now! Federal Court Reaffirms Frame-Up Conviction, Orders Life Behind Bars or Racist Legal Lynching Ruling Against Mumia Shows: No Justice in the Capitalist Courts |
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