This April the US-American radio journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal will celebrate his 55th birthday – the 27th on death row. For 27 years he has been struggling to get the legal possibility to be able to prove his innocence.

Amnesty International has dedicated one of their rare personal reports to his case in 2000, listing one hair-raising judical scandal after the next, and in consequence ending the repot with the strong demand for a new trial – a demand the organisation is emphazising to this day.

The never-ending story is finally reaching the fringes of it’s end.

As the very last legal possibility Abu-Jamal’s case is waiting at the US Supreme Court to be allowed to be heard.

The prosecution, however, is not giving in and has demanded the re-installment of the death penalty, lifted in December 2001, and have Abu-Jamal executed without further legal examination.

Please sign the new online petition to the justices of the Supreme Court, and do it now – and spread the message to everyone who might do it too:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/supreme/petition.html

The first 1000 signatures were sent to the Supreme Court on March 20 – and the letter will be followed up after every respective 500 signatures.

Annette Schiffmann for the German & Austrian Network Against the Death Penalty

There is an additional petition below:

Mumia is facing a grave legal situation, with the recent refusal to hear his strongest basis for appeal by the US Supreme Court. A new online petition can be found at <http://www.iacenter.org/mumiapetition>www.iacenter.org/mumiapetition.