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From Peace Conference: Attorney General Must Open Investigation into Case of Mumia Abu Jamal
Bill Quigley
28 Jul 2010
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US political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal is not far from the last stop on the death bus... that is, from execution.  Recently some US participants in an international death penalty conferences have tried to carve out an exception that would allow death penalty opponents to let them fry just this political prisoner, just this once.  Naomi Jaffe explains that abolition of the death penalty means just what it says, and it's more important for political prisoners than for anybody else, and introduces a movement demand Attorney General Eric Holder open a civil rights investigation into the case against Mumia Abu Jamal.

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