{"id":30875,"date":"2011-12-12T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=30875"},"modified":"2011-12-12T13:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T13:00:46","slug":"us-mumia-abu-jamal-will-not-be-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=30875","title":{"rendered":"US: Mumia Abu-Jamal will not be executed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Washington Post : Philadelphia DA dropping death penalty against Mumia Abu-Jamal in racially charged murder case\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/philadelphia-da-plans-news-conference-on-future-of-death-penalty-case-of-mumia-abu-jamal\/2011\/12\/07\/gIQAk9CEcO_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">death penalty<\/a> has been dropped against a <a title=\"Index on Censorship - USA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/USA\" target=\"_blank\">USA<\/a> journalist in Philadelphia who has spent thirty years on death row.\u00a0<a title=\"BBC: Mumia Abu-Jamal: Man, myth and the death penalty\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-16080541\" target=\"_blank\">Mumia Abu-Jamal<\/a>,\u00a0who was convicted of killing white police officer <a title=\"Justice for Daniel Faulkner\" href=\"http:\/\/justice.danielfaulkner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Faulkner<\/a>in 1981, will have his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, after Faulkner&#8217;s widow reportedly persuaded prosecutors to stop pushing for the death penalty. The death sentence of Abu-Jamal, a former member of the African-American leftist group\u00a0Black Panther, was <a title=\"RSF: COURT DECISION ORDERING NEW SENTENCING FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL SEEN AS SMALL VICTORY\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/united-states-court-decision-ordering-new-27-04-2011,40118.html\" target=\"_blank\">quashed in April<\/a>, and\u00a0the state of Pennsylvania was given six months to select a jury and hold a new sentencing hearing, or agree to a life sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death penalty has been dropped against a USA journalist in Philadelphia who has spent thirty years on death row.\u00a0Mumia Abu-Jamal,\u00a0who was convicted of killing white police officer Daniel Faulknerin 1981, will have his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, after Faulkner&#8217;s widow reportedly persuaded prosecutors to stop pushing for the death penalty. The death sentence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[4079,1616,4080,4078,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30892,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875\/revisions\/30892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}