Tag: Mel Gagarin

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the Philadelphia district attorney’s attempt to reinstate the death penalty on Brother Mumia! In order to reinstate the death penalty at this point, the DA would have to call for a new trial on the question of the sentence, with a new jury having to decide on whether to reinstate the death sentence. Otherwise, the sentence of life in prison – without parole – remains. Now on to freeing Mumia!

On Jan. 28, 2011, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the world’s best known death-row prisoner, retained the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund to represent him in the ongoing appeal of his capital murder conviction and death sentence.