Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal, born Wesley Cook, murdered Philadelphia police officer Danny Faulkner in 1981.  He was tried for that murder.  He was convicted unanimously by a racially mixed jury on the testimony of several eye-witnesses, his ownership of the murder weapon, matching ballistics and Abu-Jamal's own confession.  He was sentenced to death.
 

Since then his conviction and death sentence have been a crusade by the anti-death penalty gang, which includes the likes of Jesse Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Mike Farrell and Ed Asner.  That bunch continues to ignore the facts.  Not us.

 

 

The brutal and senseless murder of police officer Danny Faulkner by Mumia Abu-Jamal:
 

Officer Danny Faulkner

Shortly after 3:55 a.m. on December 9, 1981, white police officer Danny Faulkner made a traffic stop of William Cook, Abu-Jamal's brother, on a Philadelphia street.  Officer Faulkner pulled behind Cook's car, radioed for backup, approached Cook's vehicle and ordered the driver to get out of the car.

 

While Faulkner was in the process of handcuffing Cook, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was sitting behind the steering wheel of a taxi parked across the street, suddenly got out of the taxi, ran toward Faulkner and shot him in the back.  As the police officer fell to the ground, he was able to draw his service revolver and shoot Abu-Jamal in the chest, wounding him but not killing him.

 

The gun-wielding cab driver, and former member of the Black Panthers, fired repeatedly at Faulkner.  Danny died from two gunshot wounds he sustained that night at the hands of this killer.  One to the center of his face and the other from less than 20 inches away.

 

The trial of this murderer lasted three-weeks.  The jury was made up of 9 men and 3 women - 10 whites and 2 blacks.  It took the jury 5 hours to find this defendant guilty of 1st Degree Murder, and then 4 hours before returning a sentence of death.
 
Editor's comment:  There you have it.  Just another unrepentant killer who got himself sentenced to death.  And, of course, he and his apologists blame it on everyone else but the murderer who pulled the trigger.

 

Then	Now
Michael Dean Clark

       
In 1987, Michael Dean Clark and Roger Eastham were co-workers at a Richmond, Kentucky car dealership.  Clark was fired and Eastham helped him get another job in Lexington.  Clark got fired there too. 

Clark soon found himself broke and desperate for cash.  Roger was known to carry large sums of cash.  The evidence revealed that on the day Roger cashed his check and had approximately $4,500 in his pocket, Clark drove Roger out into the country and shot him in the head.

 

The freezer where Eastham's body was stored.

   
Clark put Roger's body in the trunk of the car.  He then rented a truck and bought a freezer and then rented a storage space and put the freezer in it.  Next he put Roger's body in the freezer and covered it with lime to absorb the odor of a decomposing body.  The freezer was not plugged in.
 

Clark stole Roger's credit cards as well as his cash.  He and his wife then began a cross-country trip to avoid apprehension. Roger was reported missing.  Through police investigation of the use of Roger's credit cards, the police were able to discover aliases used by Clark.  They then found that Clark had used one of those aliases to rent the storage facility.
 

The police received an anonymous call that Clark and his wife were hiding in Lansing, Michigan.  Clark was arrested and returned to Lexington to face a charge for the murder of Roger Eastham several months earlier.

 

Retired Homicide Sgt. Fran Root

 
Clark was tried and the jury convicted him of Murder and Robbery and sentenced him to death.  The Supreme Court reversed the death sentence and Clark was retried and, once again, he was convicted.  This time the jury sentenced him to 500 years.

   
Retired Homicide Sgt. Fran Root discussed this case with Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Larson and WVLK host Jack Pattie on American DA - LIVE on Friday, November 14, 2008.

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