Appeared at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival
On December 9, 1981, journalist, political activist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer. In the quarter century since, Abu-Jamal has become the most famous and controversial resident of Death Row. On the same day as Abu-Jamal's arrest, William Francome, an Anglo-American journalist, was born. Collaborating with filmmaker Marc Evans (MY LITTLE EYE), Francome revisits the call for a new trial and America's long, troubling history of racism, police brutality and unequal punishment.