Un'intervista cronometrata: quattro minuti al telefono con Mumia Abu-Jamal dal supercarcere of Pennsylvania. His case has become a symbol. A petition addressed to President Barack Obama raises the battle to reopen his trial. And to stop executions
"15 years have passed since the last interview ... Yet it seems to me yesterday. I sincerely Silvia Baraldini. I'm still here, on death row. Always a step lethal injection. " Thus begins, like a normal conversation in a surreal context, the manifesto of the exclusive interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal. Just four minutes on the phone from cell on death row in Pennsylvania supercarcere. It's been a few days after the fatal news that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ha stracciato la vittoria ottenuta da Mumia nel 2008, che sanciva l'appello per un nuovo processo (vedi in questa pagina). Mumia è quindi sempre piu vicino alla sua esecuzione. Ma la battaglia continua: lo stesso Mumia, con il suo legale Robert R. Bryan, ha redatto una petizione lanciata in rete a livello mondiale, che parte dal caso ormai simbolico di Mumia per chiedere l'abolizione della pena di morte negli Stati uniti. Sottoscritta già da premi Nobel e figure internazionali, tradotta in 10 lingue, sarà presentata dal suo legale a Ginevra nell'ambito del Forum mondiale sui diritti umani, dal 23 al 25 febbraio. La petizione sarà inoltrata al parlamento europeo il 2 marzo, infine testo e firme saranno presentate al presidente Usa Barack Obama.
Mumia, which message would you like indirizzane in Italy about his case and the death penalty in America.
Italy I should distinguish between the most advanced countries the battle in favor of the international movement to abolish the death penalty in America. Definitely the most civilized of American cousins. I get letters every day from Europe, from France, especially from Germany, just in recent years by Italians. But I know that there is a widespread movement and a strong commitment among those who are fighting for the abolition of the death penalty.
wants to remember the conditions of the system of detention on death row, where he is locked up for thirty years?
For five days of the week I live 22 hours locked up for 24 in this cell, a tiny cubicle. Every day I am allowed to use two 'hours of air, "that step in a cage continuously monitored. And 'only allowed access to the showers three times a week: Monday, Wednesday, Friday. This
for five days out of 7. And the other two?
In the remaining two days of the week, if it has not announced a visit is allowed to spend time in the prison library, which is another cage. In short, I spend the other two days of the week without ever leaving this cell and almost always live in total isolation. Since only about 24 to 22 hours of the day. Despite the brutality
This prison regime, in the last thirty years continues to write, study and participate in the lives of others and of prisoners on death row. How do you not go crazy?
I think I managed to stay relatively healthy. I insist on "respect" given the context that imprisons my body. My mind is always, always busy. There are so many things I would do. To write is a particular need pensare.Ciò involves hours of study, a brisk read and mental processing. Now I have also started to study music and it takes a long time.
In his work as a journalist and writer with pressure, bans by the prison system?
course. Every day, especially the guards of the new generation, they do everything to make myself a wall of silence. But thanks to a lawsuit ended with a victory, some rights that prisoners on death row have been recognized. Nevertheless, the total isolation in cell scans my life. Do you think that, because of snow, this is the first time in two weeks that I came out of his cell for two hours in the cage of the 'air' after two weeks I have seen the light and breathe the natural air.
How many prisoners are on death row in Pennsylvania's supercarcere?
In all, the two units of death row are 130 prisoners in awaiting execution. Equivalent to the prison population here.
What is the mood of those who live constantly in the shadow of death?
Many years awaiting execution. Some people are also acculturate.Ma not everyone can do it. In the last year three inmates took their own lives. Could not resist. [the voice of the operator control unit of the prison, listening, to warn you insert missing 60 seconds at the end of communication, ed]
Many prisoners sentenced to death row were found innocent then, but not saved by 'performance: some legal and political cowardice of the door this atrocious result. It 's so?
This does not apply to all those who are sentenced to death, but it is certainly a factor in the majority of cases, usually because the lawyers assigned to defend the court sentenced to death are selected among those who have no experience nor expertise extenuating circumstances that could save the prisoner from the death penalty.
Before you leave, what she believes may be helpful to his case and to all those who are sentenced to death in U.S. prisons?
would be very important [another ad warns that lack two seconds at the end of communication, ed] if the event became a public vehicle for the dissemination of Mumia petition and the abolition of the death penalty in this global battle for abolition of executions in America.
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