Mensah M. Dean at the Philadelphia Daily News covered yesterday's announcement that the Philadelphia District Attorney would not seek the death penalty for the convicted murderer of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
The bitter, divisive and protracted Mumia Abu-Jamal death-penalty case reached its legal conclusion yesterday with District Attorney Seth Williams' decision to not seek a new death sentence for the convicted cop-killer.
Williams' decision - backed by the family of slain Officer Daniel Faulkner - means that Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther, MOVE sympathizer and radio-talk-show host who became an interational anti-capital-punishment figure while on death row, will remain in prison for the rest of his life without parole.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/20111208_D_A___Abu-Jamal_can_go_rot_in_cell.html
The above CBS photo is by Steve Tawa.
You can also read my previous post of Mumia Abu-Jamal via the below link:
http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2011/12/philly-da-wont-seek-death-penalty-for.html
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