Nearly a quarter century has passed since Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted and sentenced to die for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, and in that time his case has become perhaps the world’s most closely watched death penalty case.

In December 2001, a federal judge overturned Abu-Jamal’s death sentence due to confusing jury instructions, but upheld his conviction.

Now, in an appeal to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, prosecutors are asking that the death sentence be reinstated and Abu-Jamal’s lawyers are asking for an entirely new trial, arguing that the conviction must be overturned because there is evidence that prosecutors improperly struck black jurors in his 1982 trial.

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