{"id":21439,"date":"2010-01-17T14:08:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=21439"},"modified":"2010-01-17T14:08:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:08:05","slug":"supreme-court-to-rule-on-famed-death-penalty-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/supreme-court-to-rule-on-famed-death-penalty-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to rule on famed death penalty case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kF3UHVqd_DY&amp;hl=ru_RU&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) \u2013  The U.S. Supreme Court is expected on Tuesday to issue its latest decision on the fate of Mumia Abu-Jamal, arguably America&#8217;s most famous death-row inmate, convicted of slaying a Philadelphia policeman, a crime he denies committing.<\/p>\n<p>The court is due to rule on an appeal by the Philadelphia district attorney who is seeking to have Abu-Jamal executed and bring an end to a decades-long legal saga the inmate, a former journalist, wrote about while in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Abu-Jamal, now 55, was convicted in 1982 of killing officer Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981. He has become an international cause celebre for the anti-death penalty movement whose supporters argue strenuously he did not receive a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>His backers say he was framed by police, that prosecution witnesses were coerced into false testimony and that ballistics evidence shows Abu-Jamal did not shoot Faulkner but that the murder was committed by another man who fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/readersupportednews.org\/off-site-news-section\/53-civil-rights\/760-supreme-court-set-to-rule-on-mumia-abu-jamal-execution\"><strong>More at RSN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Planet Waves coverage of <a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/mumia2.html\"><strong>Mumia Abu Jaman is here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) \u2013 The U.S. Supreme Court is expected on Tuesday to issue its latest decision on the fate of Mumia Abu-Jamal, arguably America&#8217;s most famous death-row inmate, convicted of slaying a Philadelphia policeman, a crime he denies committing. The court is due to rule on an appeal by the Philadelphia district attorney who is &#8230; <a title=\"Supreme Court to rule on famed death penalty case\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/supreme-court-to-rule-on-famed-death-penalty-case\/\" aria-label=\"More on Supreme Court to rule on famed death penalty case\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}