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Live from death row
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Collection of prison writings, including unreleased National Public Radio commentaries, by journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Pennsylvania death row inmate who contends he was unjustly convicted and sen...
Collection of prison writings, including unreleased National Public Radio commentaries, by journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Pennsylvania death row inmate who contends he was unjustly convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.
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- Creator
- Mumia Abu-Jamal ; introduction by John Edgar Wideman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Avon Books, [1996]
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- xxxiv, 188 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0380727668, 9780380727667
- OCLC
- ocm34930953
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction / John Edgar Wideman -- Teetering on the brink between life and death -- Descent into hell -- The visit -- "On tilt" by state design -- On death row: fade to black -- From an echo in darkness, a step into light -- Nightraiders meet rage -- Actin' like life's ball game -- Legal outlaws: Bobby's battle for justice -- Manny's attempted murder -- A toxic shock -- Spirit death -- A return to death -- Days of pain -- night of death -- Relatives decry "camp hell" -- B-block days and nightmares -- Human waste camps -- Black march to death -- Slavery daze II -- Skeleton bay -- No law, no rights -- Two bites of the apple in Dixie -- Blackmun bows out of the death game -- Jury of peers? -- Expert witness from hell -- The demand for death -- Already out of the game -- A bill that is a crime -- Musings on Malcolm -- Deadly deja vu -- Rodney wasn't the only one -- L.A. outlaw -- Absence of power -- Clinton guillotines Guinier -- Another side of Glory -- What, to a prisoner, is the Fourth of July -- A house is not a home -- The lost generation? -- Blues for Huey -- Philly daze: an impressionistic memoir