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Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; [3] April 24, 1954) is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. While on death row, he has written and commented on the criminal justice system in the United States.
Keith Jones (broadcaster) Keith Jones is a fifteen-time Emmy Award and five-time Edward R. Murrow Award winning News Anchor, Host, and Reporter for WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since July 2012. He anchors NBC10 News Today, which airs Monday through Friday from 4 to 7am, and co-hosts The Lineup on Apple TV and Roku.
Capital punishment is a legal punishment in Pennsylvania. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Pennsylvania since 1999, and only three since 1976 (all occurring in the 1990s, during the governorship of Tom Ridge ). In February 2015, Governor Tom Wolf announced a formal moratorium on executions that is still in ...
April 3, 2024 at 1:21 PM. FALLSINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania authorities said Wednesday they plan to pursue the death penalty against a man charged with killing his stepmother, sister and the ...
A man sentenced to death in a deadly Philadelphia apartment fire that he long denied setting has been freed after spending nearly 30 years in prison. Daniel Gwynn, 54, was released Thursday from ...
The Eddie Polec murder case centers on the murder of a 16-year-old Edward William Polec, [1] that took place on the front steps of his church in the Philadelphia Fox Chase neighbourhood on the night of Friday, November 11, 1994. The case drew national media attention because it happened in a middle-class residential part of the city not ...
George Brinkman Jr. (born January 28, 1972) is an American spree killer who murdered five people during a 2017 killing spree. [1] [2] His first victims were Suzanne Taylor, with whom he had been friends since elementary school, and her two daughters, 21-year-old Taylor Pifer and 18-year-old Kylie Pifer. On June 10, 2017, Brinkman took the women ...
Murder of Jason Sweeney. Jason Keel Sweeney (July 29, 1986 – May 30, 2003) was a construction worker from Fishtown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who at the age of 16 was murdered by four teenagers for his paycheck on May 30, 2003. The perpetrators included a girl he was dating and his best friend since childhood.