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The echo from the shots which rang out some twenty-six years ago near the intersection of Locust Street and 12th Street in Philadelphia can still be heard today. In fact, on Sunday, March 18th they will be especially loud. Exactly 85.9 miles from the spot where Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner fell, masses will be gathering and preparing to march in the Newark St. Patrick's Day Parade. However, for the first time in many years a deeply entrenched tradition will be broken: there will be no police officers among the participants. To serve as this year's parade honoree, organizers chose...

On July 3, 1982, a Philadelphia jury took just four hours to sentence Mumia Abu-Jamal to death for murdering Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. Nearly a quarter-century later, Abu-Jamal has remained alive through a series of appeals. His bid to escape the death penalty is now at a critical stage. The case will be argued this week in the region's federal appeals court, and if Abu-Jamal loses, Philadelphia's most controversial death-row inmate will be in imminent peril of lethal injection. "He realizes that death is just a few doors away," said his attorney, Robert R. Bryan, a San Francisco lawyer who...

<p>It was 25 years ago Friday that Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner was gunned down in Center City by Mumia Abu Jamal. Faulkner’s widow will mark the anniversary by honoring District Attorney Lynn Abraham at the Union League, while Abu Jamal and his supporters continue to press for the death row inmate's release. Here is a look back at the events on December 8th, 1981.</p>

The House yesterday passed a resolution "condemning the decision of St. Denis, France, to name a street in honor of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the convicted murder [sic] of Philadelphia Police Office Danny Faulkner." The vote was 368-31, with 8 members voting "present." Here's a list of what one might call the Cop-Killer's Caucus, the congressmen who voted against the resolution, all Democrats. [Snip] The most disturbing name on the "no" list is that of John Conyers. Granted, this is only a symbolic vote, but is it really a good idea to entrust the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee to a man...

In 2005, the city of Saint-Denis near Paris, named a street after Mumia Abu-Jamal. Erik Svane & Arthur Wneir from la BAF decided to rename it "Daniel Faulkner Street", the name of the victim of the famous murderer

I 'M a former Philadelphia resident living in Anderson, S.C. Philly will always be home and greatly missed. But when I read that the mayor's staff had welcomed French supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal with warmth and gifts, I was repulsed. Those supporters are citizens of a country that wouldn't support the U.S. and our allies in the effort to remove the brutal dictator and mass-murder Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. They protected convicted murderer Ira Einhorn for years. Have any of these activists seeking freedom for Mumia ever read the trial transcripts, the post-conviction-relief hearing transcripts or reviewed any...

8,000 Days And Counting: Justice Delayed In Abu-Jamal Case   (07 December 2003 13:42) Written by By Linn Washington Jr. After thirty years of doing death penalty litigation, San Francisco attorney Robert R. Bryan is not surprised to find cases ridiculed with misconduct by authorities intent on securing convictions irrespective of evidence of innocence. By Linn Washington Jr.(Special to TBWT)        After thirty years of doing death penalty litigation, San Francisco attorney Robert R. Bryan is not surprised to find cases ridiculed with misconduct by authorities intent on securing convictions irrespective of evidence of innocence.        However,...