[Fwd: Fwd: [SLDRTY-L]: [oberlin_mumia] Fwd: PA Governor Signs MumiaAbu-Jamal Death...]
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> Please spread the word. I've received several calls confirming the accuracy
> of the report below. More to come on Philly demo for Saturday.
>
> I will check with the bus company to see if we can get the bus for late
> Friday to be in Philly by 12noon. Please let me know the count by 12noon
> Thursday. Thanks.
>
> Theresa
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> Subject: [SLDRTY-L]: [oberlin_mumia] Fwd: PA Governor Signs Mumia Abu-Jamal
> Death Warrant
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:33:45 -0700
> From: Peter Olson <Peter.Olson@oberlin.edu>
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> Subject: [oberlin_mumia] Fwd: PA Governor Signs Mumia Abu-Jamal Death Warrant (fwd)
>
> Some more information on the signing of the death warrant.
>
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> Date: Wed, Oct 13, 1999 5:33 PM -0400
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> Subject: Fwd: PA Governor Signs Mumia Abu-Jamal Death Warrant
>
> > PA Governor Signs Mumia Abu Jamal's Death Warrant Despite Expected Habeus
> > Corpus Petition Citing New Evidence of Innocence, Prosecutorial
> > Misconduct, Racial Bias
> >
> > Abu Jamal's Legal Team to File Habeus Corpus Petition Friday, October 15
> > At 10:00 a.m. at the Federal District Court in Philadelphia, PA
> >
> > Press Conference Will Follow at 11:00 a.m. at the American Friends
> > Services Committee, 15th and Cherry Street
> >
> > Rush to Execute Violates Defendant's Basic Legal Rights and Opposes
> > Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations' Recent Call for a
> > Moratorium on Executions
> >
> > PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Governor Ridge of Pennsylvania today
> > signed the death warrant of Mumia Abu Jamal, despite an expected habeus
> > corpus petition from the defendant's lawyers citing: fabrication and
> > suppression of evidence; racial bias in selecting jurors; and denial of
> > the right to self- representation, among other arguments.
> >
> > This is the 171st death warrant Governor Ridge has signed since 1994 --
> > five times the number signed by his predecessors over a 25-year period.
> > Ninety-nine percent of those warrants signed by Ridge were done while the
> > inmates still had time to appeal.
> >
> > Aside from not waiting for the habeus corpus petition -- a process that
> > all defendants are legally entitled to -- Governor Ridge also decided to
> > sign Jamal's warrant despite the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar
> > Associations' recent call for a moratorium on all executions until the
> > death penalty system is proven just.
> >
> > One of the system's infirmities, acknowledged by the bar associations, has
> > to do with racial prejudice. While nine percent of Pennsylvania's total
> > population is African-American, for example, the percentage on death row
> > is nearly seven times that amount (62%). This is the largest racial
> > disparity of any state in the United States.
> >
> > In addition, a 1998 study by Professor Baldus at the University of Iowa
> > found that a young African-American man growing up in Philadelphia is 11.5
> > times more likely to end up on death row than in Georgia or Alabama.
> >
> > ``Ridge is rushing to execute before all the evidence has been
> > presented,'' said Leonard Weinglass, Jamal's lead attorney. ``Since when
> > does one man's political motivations override another's right to a fair
> > trial, especially when a human life is in question?''
> >
> > Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, 81 people have been
> > exonerated. Rushing executions assures that people who are on death row
> > as a result of errors in process or issues of actual innocence will not
> > be saved through the appellate process.
> >
> > The habeus corpus petition, which Governor Ridge knew was being filed for
> > federal review, contains more than 29 separate issues of Constitutional
> > violations that occurred in Jamal's trial and appeal. It is more than 150
> > pages, and contains more than 600 paragraphs of factual allegations
> > pertinent to the case.
> >
> > ``Several arguments will be raised in the petition demonstrating that
> > Jamal never received a meaningful trial and that compelling evidence of
> > innocence was ignored by the state courts of Pennsylvania,'' said Daniel
> > Williams, co- counsel.
> >
> > ``Above and beyond the issue of innocence -- which is paramount in this
> > case -- are the transcendent issues of whether or not in the 1990's
> > someone ought to be executed when the trial attorney admits he
> > interviewed no witnesses and conducted no investigation; when 11
> > African-American jurors were removed on the basis of race; and when the
> > prosecution wrongly used a teenager's political statements to give the
> > death penalty to an adult 12 years later,'' said Weinglass.
> >
> > In addition to the defending attorneys, those working to ensure a fair
> > trial for Jamal include: Amnesty International, Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
> > the European Parliament, Reverend Jesse Jackson and many others.
> >
> > SOURCE: Leonard Weinglass, Esq.
> >
>
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> PA Governor Signs Mumia Abu Jamal's Death Warrant Despite Expected Habeus
> Corpus Petition Citing New Evidence of Innocence, Prosecutorial Misconduct,
> Racial Bias
>
> Abu Jamal's Legal Team to File Habeus Corpus Petition Friday, October 15 At
> 10:00 a.m. at the Federal District Court in Philadelphia, PA
>
> Press Conference Will Follow at 11:00 a.m. at the American Friends Services
> Committee, 15th and Cherry Street
>
> Rush to Execute Violates Defendant's Basic Legal Rights and Opposes
> Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations' Recent Call for a Moratorium
> on Executions
>
> PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Governor Ridge of Pennsylvania today
> signed the death warrant of Mumia Abu Jamal, despite an expected habeus
> corpus petition from the defendant's lawyers citing: fabrication and
> suppression of evidence; racial bias in selecting jurors; and denial of the
> right to self- representation, among other arguments.
>
> This is the 171st death warrant Governor Ridge has signed since 1994 -- five
> times the number signed by his predecessors over a 25-year period.
> Ninety-nine percent of those warrants signed by Ridge were done while the
> inmates still had time to appeal.
>
> Aside from not waiting for the habeus corpus petition -- a process that all
> defendants are legally entitled to -- Governor Ridge also decided to sign
> Jamal's warrant despite the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations'
> recent call for a moratorium on all executions until the death penalty
> system is proven just.
>
> One of the system's infirmities, acknowledged by the bar associations, has
> to do with racial prejudice. While nine percent of Pennsylvania's total
> population is African-American, for example, the percentage on death row is
> nearly seven times that amount (62%). This is the largest racial disparity
> of any state in the United States.
>
> In addition, a 1998 study by Professor Baldus at the University of Iowa
> found that a young African-American man growing up in Philadelphia is 11.5
> times more likely to end up on death row than in Georgia or Alabama.
>
> ``Ridge is rushing to execute before all the evidence has been presented,''
> said Leonard Weinglass, Jamal's lead attorney. ``Since when does one man's
> political motivations override another's right to a fair trial, especially
> when a human life is in question?''
>
> Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, 81 people have been
> exonerated. Rushing executions assures that people who are on death row as a
> result of errors in process or issues of actual innocence will not be saved
> through the appellate process.
>
> The habeus corpus petition, which Governor Ridge knew was being filed for
> federal review, contains more than 29 separate issues of Constitutional
> violations that occurred in Jamal's trial and appeal. It is more than 150
> pages, and contains more than 600 paragraphs of factual allegations
> pertinent to the case.
>
> ``Several arguments will be raised in the petition demonstrating that Jamal
> never received a meaningful trial and that compelling evidence of innocence
> was ignored by the state courts of Pennsylvania,'' said Daniel Williams, co-
> counsel.
>
> ``Above and beyond the issue of innocence -- which is paramount in this
> case -- are the transcendent issues of whether or not in the 1990's someone
> ought to be executed when the trial attorney admits he interviewed no
> witnesses and conducted no investigation; when 11 African-American jurors
> were removed on the basis of race; and when the prosecution wrongly used a
> teenager's political statements to give the death penalty to an adult 12
> years later,'' said Weinglass.
>
> In addition to the defending attorneys, those working to ensure a fair trial
> for Jamal include: Amnesty International, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the
> European Parliament, Reverend Jesse Jackson and many others.
>
> SOURCE: Leonard Weinglass, Esq.
>
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