Mumia Abu-Jamal is an American prisoner convicted for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. His original sentence of death was commuted to life imprisonment, but he remains arguably "the world's best known death-row inmate."
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a US prisoner who was found guilty of murdering Philadelphia cop Daniel Faulkner in 1981. He initially received the death penalty, but his sentence was reduced to life imprisonment; he remains widely recognized as the world's most famous inmate on death row.