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 sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.

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Title Statements

Full title :Live from death row / Mumia Abu-Jamal ; introduction by John Edgar Wideman.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2002.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Avon Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2002.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxiv, 188 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0380727668, 9780380727667
oclc:ocn958438081
LC Classification:HV8699.U5
Dewey Decimal:364.66092

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.

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Abu-Jamal, Mumia African Americans -- Legal status, laws… Autobiographies Biographies Condamnés à mort -- Biographies. -- Éta… Criminal justice, Administration of Criminal justice, Administration of -- … Death row Death row -- United States Death row inmates Death row inmates -- Biography. -- Unit… Justice pénale -- Administration -- Éta… Quartier des condamnés à mort -- États-… Race discrimination Race discrimination -- United States United States