EXECUTING JUSTICE An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Hardback. Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author of several well-received books and many essays. At time of publication, he was also a death-row inmate, awaiting execution in Pennsylvania for allegedly killing a police officer in 1981. For many around the world, he is an inspired leader and the centrepiece to a revived progressive movement critical of the American justice system and the escalating global economic inequities that threaten everyone. For others, he is a cold-blooded killer who has duped millions, including a vast array of Hollywood celebrities, writers, intellectuals, and world political leaders, into believing that he is a political prisoner falsely imprisoned. Whatever the outlook, he and his case became a flashpoint in the ever-raging debate over capital punishment in the USA and a symbol of what is wrong with their criminal justice system. Here for the first time, the story of Mumia Abul-Jamal's trial and his struggle to gain his freedom has been told. The author, defence lawyer and chief legal strageist for Mumia Abu=Jamal, takes the reader inside the courtroom where a fierce and skilled prosecutor wove a damning narrative of a young black radical who brutally murdered a young white police officer in the red-light district of Philadelphia and then boasted about the killing. It was, the prosecutor said, the strongest murder case he'd ever tried. The author invites us to ask : Why has this case engendered such enormous attention and aroused the passions of people worldwide? Illus., Appendix, Notes and Index. 396pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in v. sl. sunned Nr. F. dw. A fairly heavy book which may require additional postage.