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...catalyst of these emotions is Mumia Abu-Jamal, 41, a prizewinning journalist. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17 for a crime he insists he did not commit: the 1981 slaying of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Sympathizers around the globe from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg...
...tried to handcuff Cook, Abu-Jamal, who was moonlighting in the vicinity as a taxi driver, jumped from his cab and ran to his brother's defense. By this account, Abu-Jamal shot Faulkner in the back. When the policeman returned fire, hitting Abu-Jamal in the chest, the journalist straddled the officer's body and fired four more shots. At the 1982 trial, prosecutors produced three eyewitnesses, ballistics evidence and two witnesses, including police officer Gary Bell, Faulkner's best friend, who testified that at the hospital after the shooting, they heard Abu-Jamal say, "I shot the motherf...
...clear that what you're getting is Bob Hughes' opinion," says assistant managing editor Christopher Porterfield, Hughes' editor since 1980. "I'm comfortable with this," he says, "because one of the secrets I've learned about Bob is that he's really a much more conscientious shirt-sleeves journalist than he likes...
Part of a journalist's training must be to keep a straight face while interviewing a character like Milosevic. WILLIAM J. KRIEG Fairport, New York...
...public discussion focused on the current status of Black journalist and community activist Mumia Abu-Jabal's execution date. Abu-Jamal faces the death penalty for killing a white Philadelphia police officer...