PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Convicted torpedo Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose box became an general cause, will not be executed and will spend his life in prison, District Attorney Seth Williams announced on Wednesday.
Abu-Jamal was convicted in 1982 of murdering a Philadelphia military officer and condemned to death, a judgment that sparked critique a box had been rubbed unfairly.
A federal appeals court overturned Abu-Jamal's death sentence in Oct and a U.S. Supreme Court declined to examination a case, withdrawal a district profession to accept life in jail or find a new sentencing hearing.
"The preference to finish this quarrel was not an easy one to make," Williams pronounced in a matter in that he also pronounced he will not find a new hearing.
Abu-Jamal, who is in state jail in Greene County, will spend life in prison, he said.
"There has never been a doubt in my mind that Mumia Abu-Jamal shot and killed officer (Daniel) Faulkner, and we trust a suitable judgment was handed down in 1982," Williams said.
"While Abu-Jamal will no longer be confronting a genocide penalty, he will sojourn behind bars for a rest of his life, and that is accurately where he belongs," Williams said.
Over a years, "Free Mumia" graffiti has turn a common steer in many cities and college campuses where a convicted torpedo has found support.
His supporters have forked to what they trust are significant errors in ballistics reports and they also contend some eyewitnesses were never called to testify.
In Philadelphia, however, officials renamed partial of a heavily trafficked highway after a slain officer.
Maureen Faulkner, his widow, pronounced in a statement: "My family and we have endured a three-decade distress during a hands of Mumia Abu-Jamal, his attorneys and his supporters, who in many cases never even took a time to teach themselves about a box before lending their names, giving their support and advocating for his freedom."
Faulkner was gunned down during a Center City intersection on Dec 9, 1981. He was 25 during a time.
"All of this has taken an unthinkable physical, romantic and financial fee on any of us," his widow said.
(Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Jerry Norton)
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