Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain, and Injustice (SIGNED)

Smerconish, Michael A.; Faulkner, Maureen

ISBN 10: 1599213761 / ISBN 13: 9781599213767

Published by Lyons Press, U.S.A., 2007

About this Item

1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED (inscribed) by both Smerconish on the title page. small closed tear on DJ top. . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain, and Injustice (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Lyons Press, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599213761
• ISBN 13: 9781599213767
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

The first book to definitively lay out the case against Mumia Abu-Jamal?and those who’ve elevated him to the status of political prisoner

 

Maureen Faulkner’s husband, Philadelphia police office Danny Faulkner, was shot between the eyes on a cold December night in 1981. Mumia Abu-Jamal was unanimously convicted of the crime by a racially mixed jury based on: the testimony of several eyewitnesses, his ownership of the murder weapon, matching ballistics, and Abu-Jamal’s own confession.

After his conviction, however, a national anti-death penalty movement was started to ?Free Mumia;” Mike Farrell, Ed Asner, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jesse Jackson rallied on his behalf, and led the charge.  For his part, while on death row, Abu-Jamal published several books, delivered radio commentaries, was a college commencement speaker, found himself named an Honorary Citizen of France, and had his defense coffers enhanced by ticket sales from a sold out (16,000-person) concert featuring Rage Against the Machine.

Here, from Maureen Faulkner and acclaimed talk show host / journalist Michael Smerconish, is the first book to carefully and definitively lay out the case against Abu-Jamal, and those who’ve elevated him to the status of political prisoner. Smerconish, a lawyer, has provided pro bono legal counsel to Faulkner for over a decade and knows both the legal intricacies and personal subtleties of the case like no other person.  He’s personally acquainted himself with the more than five thousand pages of trial transcript.  ?My reading starkly revealed that Abu-Jamal murdered Danny Faulkner in cold blood and that the case tried in Philadelphia in 1982 bore no resemblance to the one being home-cooked by the Abu-Jamal defense team.”

As Abu-Jamal’s lawyers contemplate their final appeal, Faulkner and Smerconish weave a compelling, never-before-told account of one fateful night and the 25-year-long rewriting of history.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Author

Maureen Faulkner is the widow of Danny Faulkner.  She lives in California.

 

Michael Smerconish is an attorney and host of his own exceedingly popular drive-time radio show in Philadelphia on CBS Radio's The Big Talker (1210 AM WPHT).  He has made frequent guest appearances on The Today Show, The O’Reilly Factor, The Glenn Beck Program, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Scarborough Country, and others.  He is a regular columnist for both the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer.