2. How the Frame-Up was Organized
i. The ‘Right’ Judge It is well established in academic literature on the application of the death penalty in the U.S. that the race of both the defendant and the victim plays a major...
Mumia Abu Jamal
1. Background
i. ‘Voice of the Voiceless’ Mumia Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook on 24 April 1954 to Edith Cook, one of millions of blacks who left the South in the 1940s in search of work....
Preface
The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, America’s best-known political prisoner, starkly illuminates the brutal reality of racist capitalist justice in a country that advertises itself as the citadel of “freedom.” It is an extremely complicated...