Mumia Abu-Jamal (); (born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954) was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner, and is currently a prisoner at State Correctional Institution - Greene near Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. In December 2001 a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania affirmed the conviction but quashed his original punishment and ordered resentencing. Both Abu-Jamal and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appealed. The case was orally argued before a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia on May 17, 2007, and is pending.See General Docket, Abu-Jamal v. Horn, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Case Nos. 01-9014, 02-9001. His case has received international attention. Supporters and human rights campaigners variously assert that he is innocent, that he was setup, that he did not receive a f

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