| Live from Death Row Contributor(s): Abu-Jamal, Mumia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0380727668 ISBN-13: 9780380727667 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: Once a prominent radio reporter, Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in a Pennsylvania prison awaiting his state-sactioned execution. In 1982 he was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner after a trial many have criticized as profoundly biased. "Live From Death Row" is a collection of his prison writings--an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life. It is also a scathing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system that is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding the death penalty and freedom of speech. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Law Enforcement - Political Science | Human Rights - Social Science | Penology |
| Dewey: 364.6 |
| Lexile Measure: 1290 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard. --Alice Walker Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail. -Boston Globe After twenty years on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal was released from his death sentence . . . but not the conviction. This once prominent radio reporter was convicted for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1982, after a trial many have criticized as profoundly biased. Live from Death Row is a collection of his prison writings--an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life, and a scathing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system. |