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Death Blossoms
Loaded on July 15, 1997
by Mark Cook
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1997, page 16
Review by Mark Cook
Filed under:
Political Prisoners,
Reviews,
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Penalty,
Religion Defined.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
Mumia Abu Jamal's Death Blossoms walks the reader through a hallway of mirrors reflecting the thoughts of a prisoner of conscience contending with the oppressive diversion of a death sentence. Death Blossoms evades the State's attempt to silence him. In an effort to silence him the ...
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- Prisoners of Colonialism: The Struggle for Justice in Puerto Rico, by Daniel Burton-Rose
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- Death Blossoms, July 15, 1997
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- How to Win Disciplinary Hearings (Book Review), Aug. 15, 1994
- Prisoners Are Entitled to Recovery For Underpayment of Wages, Sept. 15, 1991
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