Live from Death Row

Contributor(s): Abu-Jamal, Mumia (Author), Wideman, John Edgar (Introduction by)

ISBN: 0380727668 EAN: 9780380727667

Publisher: Harper Perennial (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 12.99 US

Binding: Paperback - Other Formats

Pub Date: June 01, 1996

Publisher Marketing: 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.