Portal:Philadelphia/Selected biography/April 2006

Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook April 24, 1954), a journalist and political activist, was convicted of the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner, which took place on December 9, 1981, and was sentenced to death. He has become a cause célèbre for many opponents of the death penalty and thus a focus of attention of many of the death penalty's supporters.