LIVE FROM DEATH ROW
by Abu-Jamal, Mumia; Wideman, John Edgar (CON)Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-06-01
Publisher(s): Perseus Books
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. xxiii |
| Teetering on the Brink between Life and Death | p. 3 |
| Descent into Hell | p. 22 |
| The Visit | p. 25 |
| On Tilt by State Design | p. 28 |
| On Death Row: Fade to Black | p. 32 |
| From an Echo in Darkness, a Step into Light | p. 40 |
| Nightraiders Meet Rage | p. 44 |
| Actin' like Life's a Ball Game | p. 49 |
| Legal Outlaws: Bobby's Battle for Justice | p. 52 |
| Manny's Attempted Murder | p. 56 |
| A Toxic Shock | p. 60 |
| Spirit Death | p. 64 |
| A Return to Death | p. 67 |
| Days of Pain Night of Death | p. 71 |
| Relatives Decry ""Camp Hell"" | p. 75 |
| B-Block Days and Nightmares | p. 79 |
| Human Waste Camps | p. 89 |
| Black March to Death | p. 92 |
| Slavery Daze II | p. 95 |
| Skeleton Bay | p. 99 |
| No Law, No Rights | p. 103 |
| Two Bites of the Apple in Dixie | p. 106 |
| Blackmun Bows out of the Death Game | p. 112 |
| Jury of Peers? | p. 116 |
| Expert Witness from Hell | p. 119 |
| The Demand for Death | p. 122 |
| Already out of the Game | p. 125 |
| A Bill That Is a Crime | p. 128 |
| Musings on Malcolm | p. 133 |
| Deadly DéJà Vu | p. 137 |
| Rodney Wasn't the Only One | p. 140 |
| L.A. Outlaw | p. 143 |
| Absence of Power | p. 146 |
| Clinton Guillotines Guinier | p. 149 |
| Another Side of Glory | p. 152 |
| What, to a Prisoner, Is the Fourth of July? | p. 156 |
| A House Is Not a Home | p. 160 |
| The Lost Generation? | p. 163 |
| Blues for Huey | p. 166 |
| Philly Daze: an Impressionistic Memoir | p. 171 |
| The Trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal | p. 195 |
| About the Author | p. 213 |
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