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<font size=3>Please help to spread the petition to President Obama
against the death penalty and for Mumia Abu-Jamal:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/Mumialaw/petition.html">
http://www.petitiononline.com/Mumialaw/petition.html</a><br><br>
To: President Barack Obama WE THE UNDERSIGNED petition you to speak
out against the death penalty for Mumia Abu-Jamal, and all the men, women
and children facing execution around the world. This ultimate form of
punishment is unacceptable in a civilized society and undermines human
dignity. (U.N. General Assembly, Moratorium on the Use of the Death
Penalty, Resolution 62/149, Dec. 18, 2007; reaffirmed, Resolution 63/168,
Dec. 18, 2008.)<br><br>
Mr. Abu-Jamal, a renowned black journalist and author, has been on
Pennsylvania’s death row for nearly three decades. Even though you do not
have direct control over his fate as a state death-row inmate, we ask
that you as a moral leader on the world stage call for a global
moratorium on the death penalty in his and all capital cases. Mr.
Abu-Jamal has become a global symbol, the “Voice of the Voiceless”, in
the struggle against capital punishment and human-rights abuses. There
are over 20,000 awaiting execution around the globe, with over 3,000 on
death rows in the United States.<br><br>
The 1982 trial of Mr. Abu-Jamal was tainted by racism, and occurred in
Philadelphia which has a history of police corruption and discrimination.
Amnesty International, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, “determined that
numerous aspects of this case clearly failed to meet international
standards safeguarding the fairness of legal proceedings. [T]he interests
of justice would best be served by the granting of a new trial to Mumia
Abu-Jamal. The trial should fully comply with international standards of
justice and should not allow for the reimposition of the death penalty.”
(A Life In the Balance - The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, at 34, Amnesty
Int’l, 2000; www. Amnesty.org/en/library/info/ <br>
AMR51/001/2000.)<br><br>
[Note: This petition is approved by Mumia Abu-Jamal and his lead
attorney, Robert R. Bryan, San Francisco (E-mail:
<a href="mailto:MumiaLegalDefense@gmail.com">
MumiaLegalDefense@gmail.com</a>; Website:
<a href="http://www.mumialegaldefense.org/">www.MumiaLegalDefense.org</a>
).]<br><br>
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