Execution case dropped against Abu-Jamal

Prosecutors in Philadelphia announced on 7 December that they had dropped their attempts to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, the death row inmate convicted of killing a police officer 30 years ago and whose subsequent legal case based on claims of innocence had received international attention.

Mr. Abu-Jamal will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole, said Seth Williams, the district attorney for Philadelphia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/us/execution-case-dropped-against-conv...

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