Mumia & the death penalty - Petition to Pres. Obama

From: NLGAnnouncements@yahoogroups.com

Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:14

From Robert R. Bryan, lead attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal:

Today I put online a petition for President Barack Obama regarding Mumia &
the death penalty.  I ask that you & your colleagues sign it as soon as
possible.  The link to the Petition is:
<http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Mumialaw/petition.html>
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Mumialaw/petition.html.

Signers within the first few hours include Günter Grass, Nobel Prize winner
in literature, Madame Danielle Mitterrand, former First Lady of France,
Fatima Bhutto, Noam Chomsky, Ed Asner, etc.

I expect a decision next week from the U.S. Supreme Court on the question of
the death penalty.  Mumia & I are very concerned, because earlier this week
the court denied relief in a similar case, Smith v. Spisak.  Either we get a
green light to proceed with the new jury trial we previously won on the
question of death or life, or we are closer to an execution.

Robert R. Bryan

Law Offices of Robert R. Bryan
2088 Union Street, Suite 4
San Francisco, CA 94123-4117
[Tel: (415) 385-8159 cell]

Lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal