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The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal's bid for a new trial in the killing of a Philadelphia police officer in 1981, the Associated Press reports.
Activists in the United States and Europe have rallied in support of his claims that he was the victim of a racist justice system. Abu-Jamal, 54, has kept his case in the spotlight, even from prison, through books, radio broadcasts and a website.
Abu-Jamal claims prosecutors improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted him of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. A Philadelphia jury convicted Abu-Jamal, who is black, of killing Faulkner, who was white, after the patrolman pulled over Abu-Jamal's brother during an overnight traffic stop.
<span style="font-weight: bold">In another pending court action, prosecutors are seeking to have Abu-Jamal's death sentence reinstated</span>.
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