PHILADELPHIA: Pennsylvania prosecutors have dropped a decades-old
quest to secure the death penalty against a former Black Panther
militant convicted in a racially charged case of killing a policeman in
1981.
The Philadelphia District Attorney, Seth Williams, took the decision after setbacks in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Mr Williams said he had acted reluctantly and to prevent
the legal process providing a platform for Abu-Jamal to promote his
views. He believed that capital punishment had been ''appropriate''.
Abu-Jamal, 57, a former radio journalist and member of
the left-wing militant Black Panther Party, will instead spend the rest
of his life in prison for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer,
Daniel Faulkner, in 1981.
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