U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Abu-Jamal Death-Sentence Appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Philadelphia prosecutors will have to pursue a second death-penalty sentence for convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal or accept a life sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the racially charged case.
Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther, has spent nearly 30 years on death row after his 1982 conviction for killing white officer Daniel Faulkner.
A federal appeals court this year upheld his conviction, but agreed the death-penalty instructions were potentially mihttp://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/sleading and ordered a new sentencing hearing.
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