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Mumia Abu Jamal & the Death Penalty
Date: 7/14/1997Call Number: PM 312Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Features the legal proceedings about Mumia Abu Jamal and connects them to the death penalty in California and nationwide. The state of California is scheduled to execute Tommy Thompson at San Quentin. Includes a speech by Leonard Weinglass, Mumia Abu Jamal's lead attorney, at UC Santa Cruz. Weinglass discusses Mumia's and how the penal system works to benefit candidates for public offices and the economic inequality of how the death penalty is applied. Also a segment from The Imprisonment of America Conference" in Birmingham, AL about the "war on crime." Brother William Muhammad speaks about how the war on crime, poverty and drugs impacts on Black and poor communities. He challenges the relationship between crime and imprisonment, citing the Unified Crime Report and NCBF statistics on crime rates, imprisonment rates post 1972, and a British study about incarceration and the Black population.
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