30 Years Later DA Drops Death Penalty Against Cop-Killing Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal

Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:03pm
by Tiffany Gabbay

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PHILADELPHIA (The Blaze/AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday abandoned their 30-year push to execute convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther whose claim that he was the victim of a racist legal system made him an international cause celebre.

Abu-Jamal, 58, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison.

Flanked by police Officer Daniel Faulkner’s widow, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced his decision two days short of the 30th anniversary of the white patrolman’s killing.

He said that continuing to seek the death penalty could lead to “an unknowable number of yearsâ€