Mumia Abu-Jamal reprieve

Title

Mumia Abu-Jamal reprieve

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

8 Aug 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:05:19

Description

London News Washington correspondent Simon Marks reports on a temporary reprieve in the United States for a convicted murderer who was due to be executed on 17/08/95. Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Pennsylvania’s death row for thirteen years for murdering a police officer named Daniel Faulkner, but several world leaders, including French President, Jacques Chirac and the Pope, have appealed for clemency. Includes noise of protesters in Washington DC; interview with campaign organiser, Ray Davis(?); radio broadcast by Mumia Abu-Jamal; Kenneth Rocks, Fraternal Order of Police; Tim Reeves, spokesman for Governor Tom Ridge.

Contributors

Simon Marks

Keywords

USA; Death penalty; Interethnic relations; Homicide; Murderers; African-American peoples; Prisoners; Pennsylvania; Mumia Abu-Jamal

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