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Subject to Debate
Pollitt, Katha | September 11, 1995 issue

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The article discusses that for thirteen years, Mumia Abu-Jamal sat on death row in Pennsylvania, and not too many people were interested outside the remnants of MOVE and the sectarian left. When people, Afro-Americans and white, argued about whether the justice system targets blacks unfairly, the test cases were Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson, multimillionaire celebrities defended by flocks of lawyers and accused of crimes against women; not Mumia, whose case actually raises the relevant issues: a police vendetta, a biased judge, a political trial, a ferocious sentence for cop killing, which is a crime against the state.

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ABU-Jamal, Mumia; JUSTICE; WOMEN -- Crimes against; CRIMINAL justice, Administration of; AFRICAN Americans; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States
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