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Court Refuses to Reinstate Mumia's Death Sentence

Pa. judges order life in prison, or new hearing

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 27, 2008 1:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – Famed death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal earned some measure of triumph today as a US appeals court refused to reinstate his death sentence, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Abu-Jamal was convicted in 1982 of killing a Philly cop, and has fought for retrial. The court upheld the...   Read full story »

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