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electric_ranger OP t1_ituyy94 wrote

Reply to comment by AbsentEmpire in Hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in officer's 1981 death, set for Wednesday by electric_ranger

It's such a hard calculus. It also doesn't really involve Fetterman or Shapiro, but Oz will try to paint it on them anyway.

For this much I give Fetterman credit, "If Republicans “weaponize” his record and “destroy” his career over his advocacy for second chances, Mr. Fetterman added, including for the Hortons and other men he said were wrongly convicted, “then so be it.”

I think you're absolutely right, because our society has never grown past the "throw em to the lions" level of morality, but I admire about Fetterman's work on the parole board was his willingness to do the right thing regardless of the outcome for his own political ambitions. That's a vanishingly rare quality.

It just sucks so much that his principles might cost a senate seat we need to hold off the fascist takeover of our government.

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electric_ranger OP t1_ituheta wrote

Reply to Hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in officer's 1981 death, set for Wednesday by electric_ranger

>His death penalty sentence was overturned by a federal court, and in 2011, he was re-sentenced to life in prison.

Wednesday's hearing will determine if Abu-Jamal should get a new trial. His defense team says they have new evidence from boxes that the district attorney's office turned over in 2019.

I'm anti-death penalty, so I'm glad he's been re-sentenced to life in prison. I also think Mumia did it, but I fully believe that the district attorney's office willfully concealed documents.

He deserves a full and fair trial. That doesn't mean he'll be found not guilty, but the law must be upheld not with malice but fairly, justly, and in daylight.

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