PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A judge will not rule as to whether convicted killer Mumia Abu-Jamal will get a new trial. Supporters of Abu-Jamal stood outside the criminal justice center Friday morning as the ...
SCRANTON, Pa. -- Former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has been granted a federal court hearing in Pennsylvania over the medical care he's received for hepatitis C and other health problems. Mumia ...
Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal’s writings and artwork have been acquired by Brown University. His papers will be included in the Ivy league school’s collection of papers that focus on mass ...
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been serving a life sentence (he was formerly Death Row) for the murder of a white policeman in Philadelphia since 1981. In that time, he's been heralded as a revolutionary and ...
In a stunning turn of events in the decades-old case of convicted cop killer and black Philadelphia journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, the death-row inmate has fired his entire legal team. The change came ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A Philadelphia judge said she intends to dismiss a request for a new trial made by Mumia Abu-Jamal's legal team. Supporters of Abu-Jamal rallied outside the Criminal Justice ...
It has been one month since Mumia Abu-Jamal was in the intensive care unit of a Pennsylvania hospital near the prison where he is serving a life sentence for killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel ...
For nearly 40 years, Mumia Abu-Jamal has been imprisoned for a crime he says he didn’t commit. On Monday, prison abolition activist and former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick renewed calls ...
When politicians react to a public uproar and rush to pass a bill in just a few days, chances are good that they make a mess of it. And that's exactly what happened in Harrisburg as the Legislature, ...
Pennsylvania Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is set to sign into law a bill critics say will trample the free speech rights of prisoners. Last week, lawmakers openly said they passed the legislation as a ...
This Friday, Mumia Abu-Jamal faces what could be his last chance for a new trial to consider newly discovered evidence that casts doubt on his 1982 conviction for murder. The journalist and former ...