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U.S. Supreme Court ruling today could bring back the death penalty for Mumia Abu-Jamal

No Death Penalty for Mumia!

From CNN
http://www.facebook.com/l/6ee22;www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/19/scotus.abu.jamal/

Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has tossed out a lower court ruling that nullified the death sentence for former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal. He has been an outspoken activist from behind bars, claiming there were procedural errors during his capital sentencing, and that too few blacks were on the jury. Pennsylvania officials were appealing a federal court ruling on the sentencing question that went in Abu-Jamal's favor in 2008.

The justices made their announcement Monday, ordering a federal appeals court to revisit its earlier ruling granting a new sentencing hearing. The high court last year denied Abu-Jamal's separate petition for a new trial.

The appeals court now has the option of re-imposing the death sentence or ordering a new federal trial to hear other claims of injustice raised by
Abu-Jamal.

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