Live from Death Row, published in May 1995, is a memoir by Mumia Abu-Jamal, an American journalist and activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for having been convicted of the 1981 murder of 25 year old Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, being sentenced to death in 1982, in a trial that Amnesty International suspected of lacking impartiality, although Amnesty International takes no stance on Abu-Jamal’s guilt or innocence in the case of the murder. Abu-Jamal wrote this book while on death row. He has always maintained his innocence of "the charges" that he was "tried and convicted of," but has never denied shooting Officer Faulkner. Publishers Addison-Wesley paid Abu-Jamal a $30,000 advance for the book.
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