{"id":6219,"date":"2011-05-02T16:03:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2011-05-02T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:03:49","slug":"court-grants-new-sentencing-for-mumia-abu-jamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6219","title":{"rendered":"Court Grants New Sentencing For Mumia Abu-Jamal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA &#8212; Convicted police killer and death-row activist <strong>Mumia Abu-Jamal<\/strong> was ordered a new sentencing hearing by a federal appeals court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The federal appeals court found for a second time that the death-penalty instructions given to the jury at <strong>Abu-Jamal&#8217;s<\/strong> 1982 trial were unclear. Last year the U. S. Supreme Court ordered the Third Circuit to review that decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abu-Jamal&#8217;s<\/strong> conviction ruling of first-degree murder for killing officer <strong>Daniel Faulkner<\/strong> in 1981 still stands.<\/p>\n<p>But a new sentencing could mean a lesser punishment for <strong>Abu-Jamal<\/strong>, who has been fighting to have his sentence overturned for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA &#8212; Convicted police killer and death-row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal was ordered a new sentencing hearing by a federal appeals court on Tuesday. The federal appeals court found for a second time that the death-penalty instructions given to the jury at Abu-Jamal&#8217;s 1982 trial were unclear. Last year the U. S. Supreme Court ordered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}