MUMIA DESERVES NEW TRIAL, NOT NEW DEATH SENTENCE, SAYS AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

On Tuesday, November 9, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will conduct a hearing to re-examine its previous decision overturning Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence. In 2000, after a painstaking review of the case, Amnesty International concluded in its report, The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance, that justice could only be served by granting Abu-Jamal a new trial.   The following is a statement from Laura Moye, director of Amnesty International USA’s Death Penalty Abolition Campaign: “Re-imposing the death penalty would be intolerable.  Mumia